New Text-Fabric module: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Linguistic Dating and the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible
This past January my Bar-Ilan University colleague, the computational linguist Moshe Koppel and I launched the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible (https://tiberias.dicta.org.il/#/ ). Tiberias marshals cutting edge advances in the field of machine...
Morphology For the Masses by the Masses
The Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB) is a collaborative project that was launched online in December 2009 and has attracted over 300 contributors. According to the project’s site, The vision of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project is not only to provide...
Clause Hierarchies, Verselines and Strophes
By Hendrik Jan Bosman On May 29, I hope to defend my dissertation, Prosodic Influence on the Text Syntax of Lamentations (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2613385). The book has a linguistic focus, and is rooted in the ETCBC procedures and programs. Yet, I will...
Manuscripts in the (Digital) Humanities
Biblical Studies and Theology have generally been at the forefront of Digital Humanities, vying with the departments of English Literature and Modern History for leading digital research in new directions. The ETCBC is a prime example of this, with its flagship...
Bootcamp on NLP tools for Syriac
On 17-18 January, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) organised a 'boot camp' on NLP tools for Syriac. The response was a bit overwhelming; we had to close the registration well before the deadline, because the limit of twenty-five participants was...
ETCBC Data for the Libre Bible Software
Libre Software Richard Stallman is the well-known hacker and the leader of the movement of the "libre software (free software)." The reason he usually uses the French word "libre" instead of the common English word "free" is to prevent confusing the notions of...
Digital Tools for the Study of Biblical Hebrew
Having more and more texts available digitally enables us to create simple but effective study tools. While the value of traditional learning techniques and a great deal of practice must not be underestimated, some digital tools can reinforce such a learning style. As...
Mapping the World of the Text: Empirical Semantics
Marc Chagall, "Crossing of the Read Sea," 1966, with grid overlay (source) Anyone who picks up the ETCBC Hebrew data soon notices the lack of semantic categories. Things like lexical word classes, semantic functions/roles, or robust lexeme glosses are nowhere...
(Re)fuelling Text-Fabric: Updating ETCBC’s Public Data Sources
The research data developed at the ETCBC is live data. The researchers at the ETCBC continuously develop new (theoretical) insights about the research data of the Hebrew Bible and other ancient corpora (e.g. inscriptions from Qumran), review encoding mistakes, and...