The book deals with the appropriate "application" of the computer by textual
critics, grammarians, exegetes, (Bible) translators and theologians. It contains
directions for educational purposes and editors of journals and texts, the
collation of mss and new projects are demonstrated. The computer can assist the
researcher variously; by putting him/her in the position to deal with large
corpora of data. Basic research can thus be executed more readily. Powerful
search programmes such as Quest II are explained. The results of more
sophisticated programming are demonstrated. Not just the micro unit, the lexeme,
can be studied, for semantical purposes, but also the macro picture, such as
syntactical structures. Finally