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Price · **Year:** 2019 · **Venue:** HIPHIL Novum 5/2, 86– **Link:** [tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/view/142737](https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/view/142737) · **Licence:** copyrighted (free to read, no CC licence) — summary only [**0** citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W4391938577) openalex-snapshot · 2026-10-14[HIPHIL Novum 5](https://openalex.org/S5406958382)[licence](https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/about) - [Publisher's page](https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737) - [PDF](https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/download/142737/186439) - [DOI 10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737](https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W4391938577) **Authors (2)** 1. Jesse A. Griffin [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/32749942) 2. [Todd L. Price](https://openalex.org/A5008845795) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/122001481) · h 1 · 1 citations · 19 works Citations and author metrics from openalex-snapshot (2026-10-14); authors with the same name are not always told apart. ## What it is about Written from the unfoldingWord project, which supplies Bible-translation resources in "gateway languages", the paper argues which licences let an original-language resource be translated and reused freely. Private licences fail (they need contracts across countries, bind only the parties, and can be revoked); CC NoDerivatives forbids translation; CC NonCommercial blocks translators from selling their work. Only CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA (and, more narrowly, the Free Translate licence) are judged adequate. It then describes open resources: the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (CC BY 4.0; release 1.4 with about 95% of WLC forms verified, built partly by copying verified parsings to identical forms), and its derivative, the unfoldingWord Hebrew Bible (UHB), which embeds links to lexicon and "translation words" articles in USFM 3 word attributes and plans a syntax layer. ## Ideas - I1. Licence check for Mova's hbo sources: every resource in [Sources](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/hbo/sources/) sorted into the paper's three classes (usable and modifiable; NC/ND, tests only; all rights reserved, summary only), which matches the repo's own rules. - I2. The OSHB trick of propagating a verified analysis to all identical forms is a cheap consistency check for Mova's trees: identical pointed forms with different MACULA morphology are listed for review. - I3. UHB (CC BY 4.0) as a second open witness: compare its word-level metadata with MACULA's for the Torah and count disagreements. ## For Mova I1 is a pass over [Sources](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/hbo/sources/) and [Data and model licences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/licence/DATA/). I2 is a check in `tools/macula` (or the dictionary build) reported in `13-mova-tools.md` §13 (known defects of the data). I3 is a measure only if UHB is fetched (via the Scientist, not by Mova). ## Cite The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. [DOI 10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737](https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737) ``` @inproceedings{griffin2019unrestricted, title = {{Unrestricted Original Language Resources}}, author = {Griffin, Jesse A. and Price, Todd L.}, booktitle = {HIPHIL Novum 5}, year = {2019}, doi = {10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737}, url = {https://doi.org/10.7146/hn.v5i2.142737} } ``` - [← previous A Linguistic Reappraisal of the Biblical Hebrew Accusative](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2019-boulet-linguistic-reappraisal-biblical-hebrew-accusative/) - [next → Semantic mapping of participants in legal discourse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2019-hojgaard-semantic-mapping-participants-legal-discourse/) - [↑ back to Ancient Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo/) ## References 8 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. Abbott-Smith, G. 1922. A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Abbott%2DSmith%2C+G%2E+1922%2E+A+Manual+Greek+Lexicon+of+the+New+Testament%2E+New+York%3A+Charles+Scribner%E2%80%99s+Sons%2E) 2. Abraham, Alex. 2017. “Paradigm X: The Search for a New Paradigm of Bible Translation to Finish the Task of the Great Commission”. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Abraham%2C+Alex%2E+2017%2E+%E2%80%9CParadigm+X%3A+The+Search+for+a+New+Paradigm+of+Bible+Translation+to+Finish+the+Task+of+the+Great+Commission%E2%80%9D%2E) 3. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. 1971. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/trea-ties/berne/overview.html](https://www.law.cornell.edu/trea-ties/berne/overview.html). Accessed February 23, 2018. [↗](https://www.law.cornell.edu/trea-ties/berne/overview.html) 4. Bunning, Alan. 2018. “Center for New Testament Restoration Project Description.” [https://greekcntr.org/downloads/project.pdf](https://greekcntr.org/downloads/project.pdf). [↗](https://greekcntr.org/downloads/project.pdf) 5. Jore, Timothy. 2015. The Christian Commons. Distant Shores Media. [https://unfoldingword.bible/tcc/](https://unfoldingword.bible/tcc/). [↗](https://unfoldingword.bible/tcc/) 6. ———. 2017. “The Gateway Languages Strategy.” unfoldingWord. July 26. [https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/The%20Gateway%20Languages%20Strategy-version%202.pdf](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/The%20Gateway%20Languages%20Strategy-version%202.pdf). [↗](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/The%20Gateway%20Languages%20Strategy-version%202.pdf) 7. ———. 2017. “Trustworthy and Trusted.” unfoldingWord. August 16. [https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/Trustworthy%20and%20Trusted-version%201.pdf](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/Trustworthy%20and%20Trusted-version%201.pdf). [↗](https://unfoldingword.bible/as-sets/docs/whitepapers/Trustworthy%20and%20Trusted-version%201.pdf) 8. Price, Todd L. 2015. Structural Lexicology and the Greek New Testament: Applying Corpus Linguistics for Word Sense Possibility Delimitation Using Collocational Indicators. Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages 6. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Price%2C+Todd+L%2E+2015%2E+Structural+Lexicology+and+the+Greek+New+Testament%3A+Applying+Corpus+Linguistics+for+Word+Sense+Possibility+Delimitation+Using+Collocational+Indicators%2E+Perspectives+on+Linguistics+)