The Peshitta is the Syriac Old Testament. See Wikipedia.
This repo is a research environment for the study of the (Old Testament) Peshitta.
You can run your own programs off-line, and publish your work in online notebooks. To that end, the plain text of the Peshitta has brought into Text-Fabric format, which is a good starting point for textual data processing.
For authors, provenance and license: see About.
The main processing tool is Text-Fabric. It is instrumental to turn the analysis of ancient data into computing narratives.
The ecosystem is Python and Jupyter notebooks.
Start with the tutorial.
This is work in progress!
- 2021-03-11 New release based on new and improved data
- 2018-10-16 Peshitta as a full-blown Text-Fabric app. Archived at Zenodo.