An Annotated Parallel Digital Edition of the Gospel of Matthew

Abstract

The article presents the principal findings of the project titled “Digital edition of an annotated parallel corpus of George the Athonite’s recension of the Gospel of Matthew” (YS-21-1562), which received funding from the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia for young scientists. Within the scope of the project, an annotation platform (Annotation Tool 2024) was developed. The Georgian translation of the Gospel of Matthew, specifically the text of George the Athonite’s recension
(Ivir. georg. 62), underwent morphological annotation. It was paralleled with the Greek Byzantine text type at the chapter and verse level. The morphological annotation is accompanied by Armenian and English translations at the word level. The platform allows users to store or download encoded text in TEI XML format. It was designed to facilitate the annotation of other books from the New and Old Testaments using the same model in the future, ensuring their digital availability. The article discusses the methodological basis of the digital edition of the Gospel of Matthew, and describes the process of developing and utilizing the annotation platform. Furthermore, it presents the basic methodology of morphological annotation according to the features of the Old Georgian language.