Bootcamp: NLP tools for Syriac, 17–18 January 2019
In the CLARIAH funded project “LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data”, the Eep...
The Value of Open Data: An Explanation and an Exhortation
As August 2018 approaches, I enter my eighth year of full-time biblical/theological research. Even before that, a trove of the scholarly world had been available to me as I flipped open James Strong's 1894 Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In this formidable...
Hebrew in Mexico with the Bible Online Learner
By Janet Dyk Several years ago, after deciding that what I missed here in Holland was white water and after being unable to book a suitable rafting expedition in Belgium (in the summer the water in the rivers is too low for rafting and in the fall when there is enough...
From ETEN Workshop to Copenhagen Alliance for Open Biblical Language Resources
From 19-23 March 2018, the ETEN Workshop on the original languages took place. Invited by Nicolai Winther-Nielsen – a well-known visitor at the ETCBC – I had the opportunity to participate in this workshop. Soon it turned out that what started as a modest...
On memories and methods
Last year I had the opportunity to present a paper when our research group, now called ETCBC, was celebrating its 40th birthday (October 31, 2017). In March I will participate in a symposium on the use of text databases in biblical scholarship, organized at the...
Workshop: Linked Data & Syriac Studies
The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) organized a workshop on Linked Data and Syriac Sources held at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (12-13 March 2018). The event was related to the ETCBS Research Pilot Project LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data and...
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.
