Editing New Testament Arabic Manuscripts in a TEI-base: fostering close reading in Digital Humanities

Claire Clivaz (1) , Sara Schulthess (1) , Martial Sankar (1)

1 SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [Lausanne]

If one is convinced that " quantitative research provides data not interpretation " [Moretti, 2005, 9], close reading should thus be considered as not only the necessary bridge between big data and interpretation but also the core duty of the Humanities. To test its potential in a neglected field – the Arabic manuscripts of the Letters of Paul of Tarsus – an enhanced, digital edition has been in development as a progression of a Swiss National Fund project. This short paper presents the development of this edition and perspectives regarding a second project. Based on the Edition Visualization Technology tool, the digital edition provides a transcription of the Arabic text, a standardized and vocalized version, as well as French translation with all texts encoded in TEI XML. Thanks to another Swiss National Foundation subsidy, a new research project on the unique New Testament, trilingual (Greek-Latin-Arabic) manuscript, the Marciana Library Gr. Z. 11 (379), 12th century, is currently underway. This project includes new features such as " Textlink " , " Hotspot " and notes: HumaReC.

Mots clés: Digital edition; Arabic TEI; New Testament; Letters; Paul of Tarsus

Domaines: Religions; Littératures; Histoire

Claire Clivaz, Sara Schulthess, Martial Sankar. Editing New Testament Arabic Manuscripts in a TEI-base: fostering close reading in Digital Humanities. Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2017, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages, ⟨10.46298/jdmdh.1390⟩. ⟨hal-01280627v4⟩