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Hippolytus' "Commentary on Daniel" update

It was as I suspected, Hippolytus’ Commentary on Daniel  has not been fully translated into English.  I wonder what kind of gems are hidden away in this work.  Unfortunately the Greek text is about 75 standard pages so translating it would take a considerable amount of time.  I believe that this is the first commentary on scripture ever produced by a Christian.  It is a pity that no one has translated it yet.  Does anyone know how accurate ancient Greek Optical Character Recognition is?  Perhaps I could scan the text and use some Greek tools to help with translation.

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2 Responses to “Hippolytus' "Commentary on Daniel" update”

  1. Roger Pearse says:
    October 25, 2008 at 2:54 am

    I don’t know about ancient Greek OCR. The only product seems to be Anagnostis:

    http://www.download25.com/anagnostis-download.html
    http://www.ideatech-online.com/

    This claims 99.5% accuracy; i.e. 5 errors every 3 pages. But how good it *really* is I do not know. Prices were quite hefty for the version that did *ancient* Greek the last time I looked; the standard edition does NOT support it; it has to be the ‘professional’ version, at 585 euros.

    Kalos might help with the translation. I keep meaning to try to write an interface to it that would make it easier for someone doing a translation to use. I simply haven’t had the time.

  2. Stephen C. Carlson says:
    October 25, 2008 at 6:21 am

    I have a PDF of this text.