Workshop: Linked Data and Syriac Sources, 12-13 March 2018
With the generous support of the Van Moorsel en Rijnierse Foundation the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) will organize a workshop on Linked Data and Syriac Sources, related to its CLARIAH Research Pilot Project LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data. In the...
Text-hierarchic trees in the ETCBC database
Textual hierarchy The topmost linguistic level in the ETCBC analysis deals with textual hierarchy: decoding the linguistic cohesion of a written text. The point of departure is the assumption that a text is not just a linear arrangement of clauses, but that these...
Upcoming Spring Colloquiums
The ETCBC would like to welcome all who are interested to our upcoming colloquiums throughout the Spring semester. We will have a variety of speakers, touching on topics such as Hebrew vocabulary training and statistical approaches to diachronic Hebrew language...
Hebrew vocabulary training with the ETCBC database
The most frequent words in the Bible are a good startingpoint for learning Biblical Hebrew idiom. But what are the most frequent words? And what are the chapters in the Bble that contain the least number of unknown vocabulary to the beginning student? Jeremy Bullard investigated this and presents his results.
ETCBC≥40 Livestream
On 31 October starting at 2:00 pm CET (9:00 AM EST), the ETCBC will livestream the main program of ETCBC≥40: Celebrating 40 Years of Bible and Computer. The event features presentations by researchers and guests of the ETCBC, beginning with a special presentation by...
ETCBC represented in Lublin (Poland) on conference about the Dead Sea Scrolls
I am writing this blog post from Lublin, Poland. Regularly, the members of the ETCBC present their work in the Netherlands and abroad. Now it is my turn. I will be presenting my research at the conference The Dead Sea Scrolls Seventy Years Later: Manuscripts,...
Register for ETCBC≥40
On 31 October and 1 November we will celebrate our founding in 1977, now 40 years ago. A detailed program of the upcoming activities is in the link below. The events will touch on the past and future direction of "Bible and computer," Bible translation, and syntactic...
New Website and Blog!
The ETCBC is excited to announce the launching of a new website, blog, and logo! This website will serve as the ETCBC's new online presence, where we can display information about the centre and about the ongoing work on its databases. Through our new blogging...
