Steve Nicolle and researchers at CanIL are producing a very helpful resource for translating the NT. "Analysis of NT Conditionals by book" analyzes all the "if...then" clauses in the Greek New Testament, verse-by-verse. The resource analyzes the scope of the conditional (using ESV text as base), class of the Greek conditional, inversion of the conditional, level of probability, time orientation, illocutionary force, sample of English translations. It also includes a targeted note about the conditional construction and a list of any parallel passages:
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Nothing like this exists yet for the OT, for the Hebrew text or the Greek Septuagint, but that would be a great project to take on!
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