Saturday, July 9, 2011

Manuscripts and CNTTS Apparatus Included in BibleWorks 9

BibleWorks has just announced a new version of their software, Bibleworks 9, which is going to be released in mid-July. Among the upgrades is the introduction of their manuscripts project which seeks to produce transcriptions and provide images (mostly from facsimile editions) to some important Greek New Testament manuscripts (free of charge). The new version further includes the CNTTS NT textual apparatus (also free of charge) produced by co-blogger Bill Warren and his associates at the CNTTS in New Orleans.
For the first time, the New Testament Critical Apparatus from the Center for New Testament Textual Studies is available for PCs. This exhaustive apparatus covers the entire New Testament. The BibleWorks version has been enhanced to show a matrix of Aland categories and time period for the mss for each reading. Users will especially appreciate having the apparatus track and update as the mouse moves over the text in the BibleWorks main window. In addition, the start of each verse entry summarizes the significant, insignificant, and singular variants. When examining a variant, the text of the verse is shown with the variant text highlighted. No unlock required!
See a video demonstration of the CNTTS apparatus in Bibleworks
http://www.bibleworks.com/content/videos/0153cntts.htm

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