[sword-devel] Congratulations to Troy Griffitts

[SonWon]

Congratulation Troy!

At any moment, you have a choice, that leads you closer to God or further
from God.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  John
8:32, KJV.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me."  John 14:6, KJV.
"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."  John 17:17, KJV.
"He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him."  1 John 2:4, KJV.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:45 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

>
> Good news out of Birmingham
> <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/itsee/news/2018/griffitts-phd.aspx> today.
> (2018-04-17)
>
> ITSEE extends its warmest congratulations to Troy Griffitts, one of its
> most longstanding doctoral students, on qualifying for the award of PhD.
>
> Troy began his studies in Birmingham in September 2010, researching the
> development of collaborative online frameworks for volunteer contributions
> to scholarly datasets, with a particular focus on the New Testament. A year
> later, however, the opportunity arose for him to move to ITSEE’s
> collaborator, the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung
> <http://egora.uni-muenster.de/intf/index_en.shtml> in Münster, to become
> lead developer of the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room
> <http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/> (NT.VMR). Troy continued to work on his
> doctorate as a part-time, split-site and latterly distance-learning
> student. His thesis describes the development of NTVMR 2.0, and the
> independent scholarly editing environment to which it has led, the
> freely-available Virtual Manuscript Room Collaborative Research
> Environment <http://vmrcre.org/> (VMR CRE).
>
> Troy’s thesis, entitled *Software for the Collaborative Editing of the
> Greek New Testament*, was examined by Dr Dirk Jongkind of the University
> of Cambridge and Dr Andrew Davies, Director of the Edward Cadbury Centre at
> Birmingham. His supervisors were Dr Hugh Houghton
> <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/tr/houghton-hugh.aspx> and Professor
> David Parker
> <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/tr/parker-david.aspx>.
> Following the successful completion of his doctorate, Troy continues to be
> active in supporting the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room
> <http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/>, as well as the Museum of the Bible Greek
> Paul Project in the USA, the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament Project in
> Göttingen and other teams using his software. He also remains a director of
> the CrossWire Bible Society <http://crosswire.org/>.
>
> Congratulations, Troy! Thank you for all the hard work you put into these
> digital tools.
>
>
> <https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--k5QAQLVLoo/WtYQFVjQxGI/AAAAAAABQB0/f-SjuZvQ1csQgytnMREfQCgWhg30IwMZACLcBGAs/s1600/griffitts-viva800x577.jpg>
>
>
> I thought this post by Peter Curry from 17 April was worth sharing to the
> mailing list, seeing as not everyone reads Facebook.
>
> Congratulations - Troy !!!
>
> David
>
>
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