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lxx-swete

  • Repository: jtauber/lxx-swete
  • Maintainer: James Tauber (compiled from Pasquale Amicarelli's digitization)
  • License: Not explicitly stated in repository. Swete's edition (1887–1894) is public domain. The digitization is likely public domain or permissively licensed. Should confirm before production use.
  • Suitability Score: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

Coverage​

Format: Plain text files, tab-separated. Each line contains: verse reference, Greek text, normalized Greek text. One file per book. 60 files total.

  • Full canonical OT in Greek (all 39 books in LXX ordering)
  • Deuterocanonical books: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Tobit, Judith, 1–4 Maccabees, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah
  • Non-canonical additions: 1 Enoch, Odes, Psalms of Solomon
  • Total: 60 files covering the complete Swete LXX edition

Quality​

Good for plain text. This is a digitization of Swete's 1887–1894 critical edition, which remains a standard LXX reference. Normalized text variant aids in searching. No morphological tagging — just raw Greek text.

Gaps Filled​

  • ✅ Septuagint (LXX) text — complete Swete edition
  • 🔶 Partial overlap with pseudepigrapha (1 Enoch already in GospeLib, but Greek text may differ)

Integration Notes​

  • Extremely simple format — TSV parsing is trivial
  • Creates new :Book and :Passage nodes under a lxx-swete :Translation
  • Verse reference format needs mapping to GospeLib canonical IDs
  • No word-level data — just verse-level Greek text
  • When STEPBible's TAGOT (tagged LXX) ships, it would supersede this for word-level analysis while this remains the verse-level text source
  • Deuterocanonical books would need new book IDs in data/book_registry.json
  • Fits existing TranslationPipeline stage pattern with minor customization for non-standard book ordering