by Reinoud Oosting | Oct 22, 2019 | Hebrew Bible, text linguistics, Translation
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...
by Stephen Ku | Aug 30, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, Open Science, Text-Fabric
eRhema’s primary goal is to provide a free tool that enables the layperson to explore the Bible in its original languages. While Bible translations are indispensable, meanings are inevitably lost even in the finest translations. Ideally, every serious student of the...
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 Jesse Griffin | Apr 18, 2019 | Hebrew Bible, linguistics, methodology, Open Science
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...