Open sjw82 opened 5 years ago
MLuckman
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5 years ago Comment: in your Leviticus document, you should remove the pseudo-markup of parentheses (eg in all your references, or when it clarifies hoary) and the quote tags vs quotation marks is inconsistent, in that you didn't do quote tags on all the things it should. Seems like you're off to a good start, though, clarifying the research question in recognition of possible problems.
k-busko
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5 years ago Referencing the Herman Melville website we looked at a few weeks ago, does your group plan on including a similar feature of scanned works of the actual texts or just the content of the texts themselves? I just thought it would be interesting to have this feature as it could possibly make it easier to create visuals about the organizational choices the writers made in the writing of the selected Torah passages.
This week our group has decided to reorient our project focus from a comparative historical analysis to a comparative literary analysis. As we interacted more with the texts and became better acquainted with the format and history we realized the texts have been altered too much in the many years since original publication (which was between 200 and 1000 CE although they were largely circulated orally prior to that) to get an authentic historical comparison.
This has allowed us to begin to develop our markup which will focus on things like adjective use, figurative language, dialogue, areas that pertain to contradictions, linkage between passages, allusions to the work of other Rabbis, as well as things like character, plot, and setting.
We met with our religious studies mentor, Dr. Shear, for the first time this week which was enlightening and helped us start to develop some forward momentum as he clarified several issues we'd been having. He also raised concerns with the copyright of different English translations which we will need to look into further if we decide to use text from a source other than the public Jewish texts library that we've been using.
We decided instead of focusing on individual verses to focus on chunks of text and that we would prefer to work on text from different books of the Torah.
This week we also began a list of possible features for the site, focusing particularly on what information will be needed to provide context to Midrash, the project's processes, as well as limitations.
For this upcoming week we've decided to choose a chunk of text to start with and to choose a primary Midrash to work with in conjunction, then to do structural markup and begin on our analyses. We have the beginning of a schema, so we will currently be using that though next week we will decide what changes need to be made to the structural elements.