Kennicott's collation is still today one of the most extensive sources of text-critical data as far as medieval  manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible are concerned.  Digital technologies such as textual encoding represent an excellent tool for extracting information from critical apparatus and for managing it efficiently for different research purposes. In this contribution we illustrate the creation of a simple rule-based parsing system to encode automatically Kennicott's apparatus according to the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative and show one possible use of the encoding – such as stemmatic analysis – as a tool for studying the textual history of the Hebrew Bible.

A Rule-Based Parsing System for Encoding Kennicott’s Collation of the Hebrew Bible

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