OpenGNT/CompareOGNTwithNA28

Comparison between OGNT & NA28:

OGNT is checked against NA28, verse by verse and word by word. Below are some of the observations:

Resemblance:

• SAME number of verse
• SAME versification (Remarks: Shorter ending of Mark 16 is placed at the end of Mark 16:20, enclosed by a pair of brackets.)
• SAME number of words
• SAME spelling for every word
• SAME word order

Differences:

• NA28 is published by German Bible Society, whereas the text of OGNT is based on TANTT, produced by Tyndale House Cambridge UK from an open source.
• NA28 is copyrighted; OGNT is released under a public license.
• different divisions on paragraphs are noted occasionally.
• OGNT / TANTT does not have special formatting on poetic lines, as found in NA28.
• OT quotations in OGNT are marked according to an open resource avaialble at https://github.com/biblicalhumanities/levinsohn/blob/master/LGNTDF/OT_quotes.xml .
• different use of punctuations are observed in various places. (The most common difference noted is that OGNT / TANTT uses "·" in various places whereas NA28 uses ".".)
• variants are presented differently. OGNT / TANTT presents variants from modern GNT editions only. In addition, OGNT / TANTT, in most cases, does not include variants where the text of NA omits. In terms of variant readings NA28 covers better and give readings of early manuscripts not modern GNT editions.
• 3006 words are different in capitalisation (a list of differences is provided in this folder, only words from OGNT are included, words from NA28 are excluded here due to copyright issue)
• 421 words are different in accents (a list of differences is provided in this folder, only words from OGNT are included, words from NA28 are excluded here due to copyright issue)
• The text of OGNT is keyed to Tyndale's House's extended Strong's numbers, James Tauber's morphology and mapped to various features, through which users can have quick access to lexicons and linguistic features, etc.
  
  Remarks: The main text of OGNT is NA28-equivalent, but not NA28. Most differences mentioned above account for the fact that TANTT used SBLGNT as its source. This is the ground that the text of OGNT is made available for the public for free, as SBLGNT has a public license. You may find details of developement from TANTT to OGNT HERE.