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Throughout the centuries, the Bible has been reproduced in various forms, from the scroll to the codex, from the handwritten codex to the printed book, and more recently, the digital Bible, as described in this article. We report the final implementation of a data conversion project to convert an existing open-source Nestle 1904 (N1904) Greek New Testament (GNT) encoded in XML format through Text-Fabric (TF) software. The data was converted using Python packages and was made available in a GitHub repository for programmers and non-programmers. The resulting annotated text can be used for morphological and syntactical linguistic research. We also developed over sixty TF features that can be grouped into warp, sectional, orthographic, lexical, text-critical markers, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and relational features. In addition, we implemented a syntactic view side-by-side of the encoded data display, calculated parent and sibling features, features for critical text, and variants in the word lemma and its characters. These features can be manipulated offline using TF browser or a Jupyter Notebook. Further, this article demonstrates how one can use an open-source code and data that targets the general user rather than only the specific needs of linguistic research. It shows the importance of an end-user comprehensive documentation, demonstrating how linguistic concepts should have the end user in mind, and the benefit of a participative project in the humanities.

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