Current status: These are the chapters I have done to date. Apart from the Psalms, they are all online beginning 4Q 2014. My text is essentially the Leningrad codex with a few tweaks from Aleppo or the DSS. And sometimes I prefer a ketiv over a qere.
| Books | Chapters | Verses | Final | % 'done' | no draft |
| 1 Torah | 187 | 5843 | 30 | 16.0% | 4796 |
| 2 Former Prophets | 147 | 4297 | 18 | 12.2% | 3679 |
| 3 Later Prophets | 166 | 3923 | 19 | 11.4% | 3566 |
| 4 The 12 | 67 | 1050 | 50 | 74.6% | 257 |
| 5 Books of Truth | 223 | 4502 | 188 | 84.3% | 777 |
| 6 The 5 Scrolls | 39 | 745 | 30 | 76.9% | 135 |
| 7 Other | 100 | 2791 | 13 | 13.0% | 2456 |
| 929 | 23151 | 348 | 37.5% |
So for example (reading line 1). Torah in my data has 187 chapters and 5843 verses. I have 30 chapters online 'done' on this blog. That's 16.0%. Of the verses, I have no draft English for 4796. If I dove into Torah alone at my target pace of 3 hours a day, it would take me 32 weeks to complete. I am not operating at my target pace. I have a bunch of excuses besides the fact that it is summer. I figure I will be at this for another 2 years or so, maybe more like 3.
But we are at 37.5% of the chapters. It's a start. If I count by word where the word has a 'pretty good' guess (automated), I am just shy of 50% done. But I know there are 47,673 words (about 15.6%) that I have no knowledge of yet. Some (many?) of these are place and person names. And some are letter combinations I have not yet encountered. With a more sophisticated algorithm based on parsing, I might guess some of them. When I see them I will know, but coding 'the rules' that I now intuit (at least a little) is more than I want to do at the moment. I have written two algorithms for parsing, a root derivation routine that I no longer use, and a grammatical analysis routine that is in a decrepit state and could be more usable. But it would take a lot of time to tidy it up. Neither routine uses the Masoretic vowels. It would have been better to encode their decisions, perhaps, but I chose not to. It seemed more important to get into the text rather than to follow decisions I could only understand by rote when I started.
15 books are complete (10 of the 12, Psalms, and 4 of the 5 scrolls). These are the books (24) that are incomplete at this time. The second column is completion percentage. It is based on automation on a phrase by phrase basis. Until there is a draft for a verse, word guesses by phrase are useful but not necessarily acceptable. You can see the impact. Only 8 of 36 chapters of 2 Chronicles are 'done' but 50% of the words are already guessed! I do, however, have to look at every verse to finish this project.
But we are at 37.5% of the chapters. It's a start. If I count by word where the word has a 'pretty good' guess (automated), I am just shy of 50% done. But I know there are 47,673 words (about 15.6%) that I have no knowledge of yet. Some (many?) of these are place and person names. And some are letter combinations I have not yet encountered. With a more sophisticated algorithm based on parsing, I might guess some of them. When I see them I will know, but coding 'the rules' that I now intuit (at least a little) is more than I want to do at the moment. I have written two algorithms for parsing, a root derivation routine that I no longer use, and a grammatical analysis routine that is in a decrepit state and could be more usable. But it would take a lot of time to tidy it up. Neither routine uses the Masoretic vowels. It would have been better to encode their decisions, perhaps, but I chose not to. It seemed more important to get into the text rather than to follow decisions I could only understand by rote when I started.
15 books are complete (10 of the 12, Psalms, and 4 of the 5 scrolls). These are the books (24) that are incomplete at this time. The second column is completion percentage. It is based on automation on a phrase by phrase basis. Until there is a draft for a verse, word guesses by phrase are useful but not necessarily acceptable. You can see the impact. Only 8 of 36 chapters of 2 Chronicles are 'done' but 50% of the words are already guessed! I do, however, have to look at every verse to finish this project.
| GENESIS | 45 | |
| EXODUS | 46 | |
| LEVITICUS | 35 | |
| NUMBERS | 47 | |
| DEUTERONOMY | 58 | |
| JOSHUA | 39 | |
| JUDGES | 39 | |
| 1 SAMUEL | 47 | |
| 2 SAMUEL | 37 | |
| 1 KINGS | 52 | |
| 2 KINGS | 51 | |
| ISAIAH | 34 | |
| JEREMIAH | 44 | |
| EZEKIEL | 32 | |
| HOSEA | 41 | |
| ZECHARIAH | 67 | |
| PROVERBS | 26 | |
| JOB | 84 | |
| ESTHER | 28 | |
| DANIEL | 12 | |
| EZRA | 22 | |
| NEHEMIAH | 29 | |
| 1 CHRONICLES | 34 | |
| 2 CHRONICLES | 50 |
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