by Wido 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...
by Wido van Peursen | Jan 31, 2022 | Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts, manuscripts, Pali, Text-Fabric
Bee Scherer (project lead) Dirk Roorda (text fabric) Yvon Mattaar (Pāli input) Willem van Peursen (DAST lead) The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) is linked to the research group Digital Approaches to Sacred Texts (DAST) at the Faculty of Religion and...
by Wido van Peursen | Oct 8, 2020 | Bible, Database, manuscripts, Peshitta, Syriac
In cooperation with Brill publishers, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) and the Peshitta Foundation have prepared an electronic version of Leiden Peshitta edition, Vetus Testamentum Syriace. With the recent publication of the volume containing...
by Alba de Ridder | Mar 13, 2020 | Computational Linguistics, events, linguistics, manuscripts, methodology, news, Text-Fabric
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...
by Cornelis van Lit | Mar 5, 2019 | manuscripts, methodology, Open Science
Biblical Studies and Theology have generally been at the forefront of Digital Humanities, vying with the departments of English Literature and Modern History for leading digital research in new directions. The ETCBC is a prime example of this, with its flagship...
