by Wido 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...
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 Wido 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 Wido van Peursen | Jul 10, 2018 | Bible, Hebrew Classroom, Hebrew Learning, news, Uncategorized
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...
by Srecko Koralija | Mar 15, 2018 | news
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...
by Cody Kingham | Oct 30, 2017 | events, news
On 31 October starting at 2:00 pm CET (9:00 AM EST), the ETCBC will livestream the main program of ETCBC≥40: Celebrating 40 Years of Bible and Computer. The event features presentations by researchers and guests of the ETCBC, beginning with a special presentation by...