by Joshua Berman | May 7, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, methodology, Stylistics
This past January my Bar-Ilan University colleague, the computational linguist Moshe Koppel and I launched the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible (https://tiberias.dicta.org.il/#/ ). Tiberias marshals cutting edge advances in the field of machine...
by Jesse Griffin | Apr 18, 2019 | Hebrew Bible, linguistics, methodology, Open Science
The Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB) is a collaborative project that was launched online in December 2009 and has attracted over 300 contributors. According to the project’s site, The vision of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project is not only to provide...
by Camil Staps | Nov 5, 2018 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Classroom, Hebrew Learning
Having more and more texts available digitally enables us to create simple but effective study tools. While the value of traditional learning techniques and a great deal of practice must not be underestimated, some digital tools can reinforce such a learning style. As...
by Cody Kingham | Oct 24, 2018 | Hebrew Bible, semantics
Marc Chagall, “Crossing of the Read Sea,” 1966, with grid overlay (source) Anyone who picks up the ETCBC Hebrew data soon notices the lack of semantic categories. Things like lexical word classes, semantic functions/roles, or robust lexeme glosses...
