by Daniel Semler | May 17, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Classroom, Hebrew Learning
When I was young I used to do wordsearch puzzles all the time. They were of course in my native language, English. But they helped me learn to recognise many words very quickly and to pick them out of a page. In learning the languages of the bible one thing that is...
by Joshua Berman | May 7, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, methodology, Stylistics
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...
by Camil Staps | Nov 5, 2018 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Classroom, Hebrew Learning
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...
by Wido van Peursen | Sep 11, 2018 | Bible, events, linguistics
Due to the overwhelming response, we reached the maximum of participants even long before the registration deadline and have to close the registration for this event. In the CLARIAH funded project “LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data”, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and...
by James Cuénod | Aug 28, 2018 | Bible, Hebrew Learning
As August 2018 approaches, I enter my eighth year of full-time biblical/theological research. Even before that, a trove of the scholarly world had been available to me as I flipped open James Strong’s 1894 Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In this formidable...
by Wido van Peursen | Jul 10, 2018 | Bible, Hebrew Classroom, Hebrew Learning, news, Uncategorized
By Janet Dyk Several years ago, after deciding that what I missed here in Holland was white water and after being unable to book a suitable rafting expedition in Belgium (in the summer the water in the rivers is too low for rafting and in the fall when there is enough...
