k-mktr/coptic_sahidic_nt_cop

Sahidic Coptic NT

Description

The Sahidic Coptic New Testament is one of the earliest and most important witnesses to the New Testament text. Sahidic was the literary dialect of Coptic, the final stage of the Egyptian language, written in the Greek alphabet with additional characters. The Sahidic NT translations date from the 3rd-4th centuries CE and represent some of the earliest translations of the Greek New Testament into any language. This text is of immense value for New Testament textual criticism.

Dataset Structure

Each row represents one Bible verse.

Column	Type	Description
translation_id	string	Translation identifier
translation	string	Full translation name
language	string	Language code
book_number	int32	Book number (1-27)
book	string	Book name
book_abbr	string	Book abbreviation
chapter	int32	Chapter number
verse	string	Verse number (may include suffixes like 13a)
verse_number	int32	Numeric part of verse
verse_suffix	string	Verse suffix (e.g. a, b) or null
verse_id	string	Unique verse identifier ({book_abbr}_{chapter}_{verse})
text	string	Verse text

Statistics

• Books: 27
• Verses: 7933
• Language: Coptic
• Format: Parquet (ZSTD compressed)
• File size: 0.78 MB

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("k-mktr/coptic_sahidic_nt_cop", split="train")
print(dataset[0])
# {'translation_id': 'coptic_sahidic_nt_cop', 'book': '...', 'chapter': 1, 'verse': '1', 'text': '...'}

License

Public domain (3rd-4th century text, copyright expired).