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
Building an Amharic lens to the languages of the Bible
A new project We are excited to announce the start of a new project for the development of an Amharic version of the Bible Online Learner that will be a unique cooperation between the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC), the Ethiopian Graduate School of...
Integrating BHSA Data with Wider Biblical Resources on Desktop and Mobile Platforms
It was my pleasure to give a brief overview of BibleBento.com on the 40th anniversary of the ETCBC. I would like to share a little bit more here, including progress of the development since the presentation. I am a full-time church minister. I like collecting Bible...
Syntactic Patterns and Translating the Bible
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...
Phrase and Syntax Search for the Layperson
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...
Word Games For Learning Biblical Languages
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...