glossAPI/artoszois

Bulletin of Biblical Studies — Άρτος Ζωής Archive

Dataset Info

This dataset is a structured digital export of the scholarly journal Δελτίο Βιβλικών Μελετών ("Bulletin of Biblical Studies"), published continuously since 1971 by the Άρτος Ζωής Foundation (Ίδρυμα Βιβλικών Σπουδών «Άρτος Ζωής»), a non-profit educational and research foundation established in 1937 and dedicated to the study of the Bible and Christian thought. The dataset was sourced from the foundation's publicly accessible digital archive (https://www.artoszois.gr/deltio-vivlikon-meleton-arxeio/) and contains the full text of 56 issues spanning 1971–2005, extracted from the original PDFs via OCR.

The journal publishes scholarly articles in Modern Greek (with occasional citations in Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek polytonic) on:

• Biblical exegesis and hermeneutics
• Old Testament and New Testament studies
• Patristics and the history of biblical interpretation
• Biblical philology and translation
• Theology and the dialogue between biblical tradition and modern philosophy

Each entry corresponds to a single issue (τεύχος) of the journal and includes the volume identifier, the full issue text (table of contents, articles, footnotes, bibliographies), and a permanent link back to the original PDF on artoszois.gr.

Metadata Info

Column	Type	Description
title	string	Issue identifier — volume, year, fascicle (e.g., Ιούνιος 1971 - Τόμος 1ος, Τεύχος 1ον, Ιανουάριος-Ιούνιος 2005 (Έτος 33), Τόμος 23ος)
content	string	Full text of the issue, OCR-extracted from the original PDF; preserves paragraph structure via \n separators
permanent_link	string	Source URL of the original PDF on www.artoszois.gr

Dataset Statistics

• Issues (rows): 56
• Coverage: 1971–2005
• Size: 12.20 MB
• Words: 2.336.307 (counted on the content column, whitespace-separated)
• Tokens: 3.975.074 (counted on the content column with the nlpaueb/bert-base-greek-uncased-v1 WordPiece tokenizer, no special tokens, no truncation)

Usage

This dataset is useful for:

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks for Modern Greek, especially in the religious / scholarly register
• Linguistic and philological research on academic Modern Greek
• Theological, biblical, and patristic studies
• Building Greek language tools, lexicons, or domain-adapted embeddings
• Historical study of Greek biblical scholarship from 1971 onwards

The text is OCR-derived from print-quality scanned PDFs. Users should expect typical OCR artefacts: occasional character substitutions in headwords (e.g., ΔΕΛΤΙΟ rendered as ΔΕΡΙΟ / ΔΕΥΤΙΟ / ΔΕΡΤΙΟ in some issues), residual layout markers, and a small number of Unicode replacement characters (U+FFFD) where the OCR engine could not resolve a glyph. These reflect the source extraction faithfully and have not been silently corrected.

License

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Any commercial use requires prior written permission from the Άρτος Ζωής Foundation. All intellectual property rights in the underlying journal articles remain with the Άρτος Ζωής Foundation (Μπουμπουλίνας 28, 106 82 Αθήνα) and the original authors of each contribution. The dataset is OCR-derived from the foundation's publicly accessible PDF archive and is provided for non-commercial research, scholarship, and educational use.

Contact

For feedback contact: glossapi.team@eellak.gr