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Symposium “Valency Grammar and Biblical Languages”

Symposium “Valency Grammar and Biblical Languages”

by Thijs Amersfoort | Apr 14, 2025 | Bible, Database, events, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Learning, linguistics, Translation

A symposium was organized on the 4th and 5th of April by the ETF Leuven, Noster, and the Netherlands-Flemish Bible Society in Leuven on the topic of valency grammar in the Biblical languages. The event featured a comprehensive discussion of the history of the research...
Recent developments in the computational analysis of the Bible

Recent developments in the computational analysis of the Bible

by Samuel Swire | Oct 8, 2024 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, linguistics, manuscripts

By Samuel Swire and Thijs Amersfoort In his article Computational Linguistic Analysis of the Biblical Text Willem van Peursen gave an overview of the development of the computational analysis of the Bible from its early beginnings through 2022. Since then, the...
Studying Syriac manuscripts in Minnesota

Studying Syriac manuscripts in Minnesota

by Willem van Peursen | May 30, 2023 | Bible, manuscripts, Syriac

By Geert Jan Veldman MA, Zwolle It happened often in conversations in the more southern parts of the United States of America, that a conversation partner asked me something like “Why on earth you want to visit one of the coldest parts of mainland USA?”, when I...
In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968-2023)

In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968-2023)

by Willem van Peursen | Apr 17, 2023 | Bible, Septuagint

By Srecko Koralija It was with great sadness that I received the news that on Friday the 7th of April my PhD supervisor and professor James Aitken passed away after his second major heart attack. He was widely recognized as an outstanding scholar. He studied at the...
Could robots be religious?

Could robots be religious?

by Willem van Peursen | Dec 15, 2022 | AI, Bible, Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts, events, news, Open Science

On 12 December 2022 the Faculty of Religion and Theology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the research institute and CLUE+ organized a workshop centered around the provocative question: could robots be religious? The timing couldn’t be more appropriate: about...
Impressions of the Tenth Meeting of the International Organization for Targumic Studies

Impressions of the Tenth Meeting of the International Organization for Targumic Studies

by Willem van Peursen | Oct 21, 2022 | Bible, events, manuscripts, Targum

By Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman In July 2022 the International Organization for Targum Studies (IOTS) held its tenth meeting in Salzburg. There were, of course, some of the usual participants, but also surprisingly many new ones. We especially welcomed those from the...
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