
Digital Approaches to the Old Testament and Other Sacred Texts — Research Meetings Spring 2021
In the next months we will have an exciting schedule of research meetings and presentations. All will meetings will be online. For Zoom meetings send a request Prof. Wido van Peursen Thursday 4 Feb 2021 11.00–13.00 CET Wido van Peursen Digital Approaches to the Old...

International Interest in the Course Digital Hermeneutics and the Reception of the Hebrew Bible
Tuesday morning (Amsterdam time), September 1st, was the start of the course Digital Hermeneutics and the Reception of the Hebrew Bible at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Because of the coronavirus, all lectures took place online via Zoom meetings. Although it...

The Brill Peshitta Portal Project
In cooperation with Brill publishers, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) and the Peshitta Foundation have prepared an electronic version of Leiden Peshitta edition, Vetus Testamentum Syriace. With the recent publication of the volume containing...

Using a Neural Network to Parse Phrase Atoms in the DSS

Programme online ETCBC meetings Fall semester 2020
We are happy to announce the ETCBC meetings for the Fall semester. All meetings will be online through Zoom. Tuesday 22 September 2020, 11.00 am CET Text Features and Text Display in Text Fabric Dirk Roorda Text-Fabric, the Python package that...

“Dark I am and/but lovely”
(And why you should follow the new online minor programme in Bible Translation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) By Lourens de Vries The Hebrew conjunction we in The Song of Solomon (1:5) can be rendered by “and” or “but” and translations have gone both ways. What’s a...

In Memoriam Christof Felix Hardmeier
By Eep Talstra On May 8 2020 my dear long-time friend and colleague, Christof Hardmeier, passed away, at the age of 77. A man of great talents, he was capable of participating intensely in various domains of life: theology, churches, political activities, literature,...

Lorentz Workshop 2020: Processing Ancient Text Corpora
From 14-21 February of 2020, the Lorentz-workshop “Processing Ancient Text Corpora”, organized by Cody Kingham, Wido van Peursen, Dirk Roorda and Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, in collaboration with the NIAS, took place. It was organized in the very comfortable...

The Conversion of Features of the Biblical DSS to ETCBC Encoding
