ABOUT EEP TALSTRA CENTRE FOR BIBLE AND COMPUTER
The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer is a research center at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Theology. The ETCBC develops and maintains an advanced syntactic database of the Hebrew Bible and researches issues related to Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac syntax and exegesis by applying computational and statistical methods.
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MASTER OF ARTS
The ETCBC offers an MA specialization in Biblical Studies and Digital Humanities.
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Building an Amharic lens to the languages of the Bible
A new project We are excited to announce the start of a new project for the development of an Amharic version of the Bible Online Learner that will be a unique cooperation between the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC), the Ethiopian Graduate School of...
Integrating BHSA Data with Wider Biblical Resources on Desktop and Mobile Platforms
It was my pleasure to give a brief overview of BibleBento.com on the 40th anniversary of the ETCBC. I would like to share a little bit more here, including progress of the development since the presentation. I am a full-time church minister. I like collecting Bible...
Syntactic Patterns and Translating the Bible
Working as a Bible translator I am not only interested in the meaning and the literary composition of individual texts, but also in the linguistic patterns underlying these texts. Detecting and registering these patterns helps in gaining inside into the grammatical...