https://www.digitalmishnah.org/uncategorized/almost-ready-for-prime-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=almost-ready-for-prime-time Developing a Digital Edition of the Mishnah Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 https://www.digitalmishnah.org/uncategorized/almost-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-57 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:20:36 +0000 http://www.digitalmishnah.org/?p=136#comment-57 You are absolutely correct that the Talmud includes both Aramaic and Hebrew. For the present, I am working only with the Mishnah, which is an early layer in the Talmud that is almost entirely in Hebrew.
For the Talmud there are some sets of material where distinctions are relatively easy: a lot of the Hebrew is in citations, and a lot of the Aramaic in “editorial” discussion (in scare quotes because the issue of editing is so vexed). More problematic is when that editorial layer itself has language shifts.
What are your thoughts?

]]> https://www.digitalmishnah.org/uncategorized/almost-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-56 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:32:20 +0000 http://www.digitalmishnah.org/?p=136#comment-56 Interesting! I was thinking less of a translation of the Talmud than of the Talmud itself as a bilingual text. Am I wrong that some is in Hebrew and some Aramaic? But yes, metadata and and interface internationalization are also a recurring thought for me, as well.

]]> https://www.digitalmishnah.org/uncategorized/almost-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-55 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:13:50 +0000 http://www.digitalmishnah.org/?p=136#comment-55 Thanks for your comment.
While I will probably integrate a translation to the text at some point, the project is currently monolingual in terms of the text represented (although interface and metadata are entirely in English; at a later stage we will need to internationalize this, at least to include Hebrew).
In terms of theoretical thinking about representation of the text, my concern was less about language and more about manuscript. Talmud-oriented digital projects tend to aim at extracting text. While this is significant, it is not the end product. My goal was to view the transcription and markup as a guide to preserved page and to retain data about scribal practices such as abbreviation or adding surplus text, so that the end product is as much a contribution to medieval book culture as it is to the text-history of a 2nd-3rd C legal text.

]]> https://www.digitalmishnah.org/uncategorized/almost-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-45 Fri, 25 May 2012 14:56:57 +0000 http://www.digitalmishnah.org/?p=136#comment-45 I have been thinking about digital representation of bilingual (or multilingual) texts for some time and have not found much information on them. As I was thinking about what kinds of texts might be good candidates, the Talmud occurred to me, and I found your site. I’d love to hear more about the theoretical thinking that went into your choices of how to represent your text!

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