by Willem van Peursen | Dec 3, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Classroom, Hebrew Learning, linguistics, news, Open Science, Translation
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...
by Stephen Ku | Aug 30, 2019 | Bible, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, Open Science, Text-Fabric
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...
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 Christiaan Erwich | Sep 21, 2018 | Computational Linguistics, Database, linguistics, methodology, Open Science, SHEBANQ, text linguistics, Text-Fabric
The research data developed at the ETCBC is live data. The researchers at the ETCBC continuously develop new (theoretical) insights about the research data of the Hebrew Bible and other ancient corpora (e.g. inscriptions from Qumran), review encoding mistakes, and...
by Willem van Peursen | Sep 11, 2018 | Bible, events, linguistics
Due to the overwhelming response, we reached the maximum of participants even long before the registration deadline and have to close the registration for this event. In the CLARIAH funded project “LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data”, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and...
by Eep Talstra | Mar 26, 2018 | linguistics, methodology, text linguistics
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...
