Dear Charlotte,

In Birmingham - as you probably know already - we're interested in the  
same questions with regard to biblical quotations in Greek and Latin,  
although of course we're helped by having very specific verse  
numerations within the source texts, which enables us to link them to  
a certain extent.

I'm also on the advisory board of the French BIBLindex (formerly  
Biblia Patristica) project (www.biblindex.org), which has a much  
broader remit and hopes to adopt a more automated approach to  
identifying biblical quotations in early authors over the next 5 years  
or so.

I don't know that we have any wisdom to share at present, but please  
do add us to your list of contacts and let us know how you get on.

I know that this coming year is not possible for you, but perhaps we  
will be able to lure you to Birmingham to talk about it before too long.

Best wishes,
Hugh

Dr Hugh Houghton
www.itsee.bham.ac.uk   www.vetuslatina.org   www.iohannes.com

Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing,
University of Birmingham, Elmfield House, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6LQ

On 11 Aug 2010, at 11:45, Charlotte Roueche wrote:

> I and my colleagues in Sweden and Austria are starting a project to  
> analyse and publish gnomologia, collections of sayings. We are  
> looking specifically at Greek and Arabic collections. We are  
> interested in developing criteria for linking citations within  
> collections, between collections, with translations, with >source<  
> texts, and with texts which use them. For further details of our  
> project, Sharing Ancient Wisdoms, Exploring the tradition of Greek  
> and Arabic wisdom literatures (SAWS) see
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/research-section/saw/
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> I am writing now because I could very much like to establish contact  
> with other projects working in similar areas; we have talked to  
> some, but there may well be more. There are a lot of conceptual  
> problems which it would be very helpful to share: so I would be very  
> glad to hear from anyone who would like to talk to us
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> With thanks
>
> Charlotte Roueche
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> Professor Charlotte Roueché
> Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of  
> Classics
> King's College
> London WC2R 2LS
> direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515
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