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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The ETCBC offers an MA specialization in Biblical Studies and Digital Humanities.
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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...