glossAPI/artos-zois

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 43 issues spanning 1971–2001, extracted from the original PDFs via the Chandra OCR model.

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., Δεκέμβριος 1971 - Τόμος 1ος, Τεύχος 2ον, Ιούλιος-Δεκέμβριος 2001 (Έτος 30) - Τόμος 20ος)
content	string	Full text of the issue in Markdown, OCR-extracted from the original PDF (see Note on Content Formatting)
pdf_url	string	Source URL of the original PDF on www.artoszois.gr

Note on Content Formatting

The content field is Markdown produced by the Chandra OCR model:

• Inline HTML tables are preserved verbatim. Tables of contents (ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ), indexes, and bibliographies are rendered as <table>…</table> (with <tr>, <td>, <br/>) and carry real text, so they are kept as-is.
• Footnote markers and headings are preserved. <sup>n</sup> footnote references, ATX headings (#, ##, ###), --- horizontal rules, and table-of-contents dot leaders (.....) are kept as written.
• Image references were removed. The OCR emitted Markdown image tags (![alt](…_img.webp)) for figures, blank pages, and scanning artifacts; the .webp files are not part of this dataset and the alt-text was a model-generated English description not present in the source, so all such tags were stripped.
• Whitespace was normalized. Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) were converted to regular spaces, stray HTML entities (&, <, >) were decoded, and per-line trailing whitespace (OCR line-wrap artifacts) was stripped. None of this changes visible text.

Dataset Statistics

• Issues (rows): 43
• Coverage: 1971–2001
• Size: 6,24 MB
• Words: 1.793.049 (counted on the content column, whitespace-separated)
• Tokens: 3.124.553 (counted on the content column with the nlpaueb/bert-base-greek-uncased-v1 WordPiece tokenizer, no special tokens, no truncation)

Known Data Quality Notes

• Incomplete coverage. The journal's full run (1971–2005) comprises 56 issues; this OCR extraction currently covers 43 of them. The following 13 issues are not yet included and are pending re-processing:

  Volume	Period	Year
  Τόμος 1ος, Τεύχος 1ον	Ιούνιος	1971
  Τόμος 4ος (Νέα Σειρά)	Ιούλιος–Δεκέμβριος	1985
  Τόμος 6ος (Νέα Σειρά)	Ιανουάριος–Ιούνιος	1987
  Τόμος 6ος (Νέα Σειρά)	Ιούλιος–Δεκέμβριος	1987
  Τόμος 7ος (Νέα Σειρά)	Ιανουάριος–Ιούνιος	1988
  Τόμος 11ος (Νέα Σειρά)	Ιανουάριος–Ιούνιος	1992
  Τόμος 12ος (Νέα Σειρά)	Ιούνιος–Δεκέμβριος	1992
  Τόμος 13ος	Ιούλιος–Δεκέμβριος	1994
  Τόμος 17ος	Ιούλιος–Δεκέμβριος	1998
  Τόμος 19ος	Ιανουάριος–Ιούνιος	2000
  Τόμος 21ος–22ος	Ιανουάριος 2002 – Δεκέμβριος	2003
  Τόμος 23ος	Ιανουάριος–Ιούνιος	2005
  Τόμος 23ος	Ιούλιος–Δεκέμβριος	2005

• OCR errors. content is machine-read from print-quality scans; expect occasional character-level OCR mistakes (e.g. Παράδεισος mis-read as Παράδειρος), especially in the older polytonic issues. The text has not been auto-corrected, as that would risk introducing new errors.

• Polytonic accent encoding. In some places the OCR renders accented Greek vowels as Latin look-alike characters (e.g. τοῦ → τοù, Τὸ → Τò). These have been left as-is.

• Editorial / digitization marks. Some issues contain a repeated line ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΙΑΚΗ ΜΟΝΑΔΑ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΙΑΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΙΣΗΣ, which appears to be a digitization-program stamp rather than journal text.

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

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