Key Changes in Bible Versions by Comparison

[Jacob11]

There should be a feature that quickly compares two Bible versions to list all the key changes of addition or subtraction. This will be mainly to list all the differences from older versions to the new critical versions. We all need to find exact changes from the old Bibles like KJV changes to RV/ASV, and changes from RSV to ESV to find out textual criticism development. To know the things that we might be missing in RSV compared to the critical ESV. This window will show predictive colour coding of instances of significant changes of addition or omission of phrases, and entire verses.

[jonathangkoehn]

You might want to look at the Sneak-Peek compare. As to doing a massive compare like what you are suggesting that is a bit much but a verse by verse shows quickly what is going on in the Sneak-Peek

[Jacob11]

That is impractical to compare versions manually by reading, it's useless. If a feature is made that compares two versions by indexing versions to give a list of significant changes, then it will present precise instances of changes in the result. This is most crucial for Textual base of versions; for example, we are all curious to know exactly what are the changes made in the KJV vs RV, and from RV to ESV. This can be a very useful feature.

[mathetes]

Since the public domain Bible texts for theWord are simply one verse-per-line text files, you may want to try stripping out all the punctuation and any tags and then using a diff program to do a file comparison and export. Programs that might work for this might be WinMerge (https://winmerge.org - see https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/discussions/920 for exporting help) or KDiff3 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3/files/kdiff3/ - see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/128 ... iff-format for exporting help).

If these don't work out for you, try doing an Internet search for something like "file compare export diff" for other possibilities.

[jonathangkoehn]

That is impractical to compare versions manually by reading, it's useless. If a feature is made that compares two versions by indexing versions to give a list of significant changes, then it will present precise instances of changes in the result. This is most crucial for Textual base of versions; for example, we are all curious to know exactly what are the changes made in the KJV vs RV, and from RV to ESV. This can be a very useful feature.

Greetings Jacob11,
I am not suggesting by reading. (The Sneak-peek has a tool that indicates the differences very quickly with colors. Have you checked it out yet?)
Could something like this be expanded to list the difference for an entire Bible. Yes, that is a possibility but don't expect it to be super fast for an entire Bible since it does word/character/punctuation. The other thing is there is usually a limitation as to the max copyable verses for a copyrighted Bible usually around 200 verses. So anything beyound that limitation unless it is like public domain. (Perhaps something in the future.) If you are in the sneak-peek github you can suggest this idea there.

Then the next problem is what is major/minor and according to who. Such as the differences.

[Jacob11]

Thanks Jonathan, I didn't know about sneak peek, had to search what it is and found your video https://youtu.be/nzL8jT_NPdI?si=Q44sZB9hchtrvxQ-&t=1280 . The comparison view highlights of the difference is great. Though, the reason I expect it to be in the bible search window to show only the differences and avoid reading the whole bible verse by verse comparison. That will be easier, bec what if we are looking for just the significant changes, especially the base text changes. Then we want a filter setting in this search window to show levels like 1, 2, 3 word change, or something like changes categories by degree, 1, 2, 3, 4, where the maximum level shows *only* a whole verse change, or level 4 will show results of the 50%+ change in verses. So, that will show only the desired results of the changes, where we can limit the range to NT or one book. This will be helpful to export the few changes to a list, or copy directly all results references only from the search window. The best use will be to compare the base text difference from old to critical text, and the changes in the newer editions of a version, in a list.

The same highlighted comparison view should be added in the list view; where with a tab we can add some more versions in that list view to compare with highlights right away, rather than going anywhere else by opening them in comparison view. I will think about installing the sneak-peek beta.