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...
by Mathias Coeckelbergs | Jan 21, 2022 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, methodology, Open Science, Peshitta, semantics, Syriac, text linguistics
This second blogpost for the PaTraCoSy project brings us to a first discussion of the translation patterns from the Hebrew Bible into the Peshitta. Before we can address the results, we briefly describe how we constructed the model. After installation of Colibri Core,...
by Mathias Coeckelbergs | Sep 20, 2021 | AI, Bible, Computational Linguistics, Hebrew Bible, linguistics, Open Science, Peshitta, semantics, Syriac, Uncategorized
This very first blogpost seeks to report on our advancements in the PaTraCoSy (PAtterns in TRAnslation: Using COlibriCore for the Hebrew Bible corpus and its SYriac translation) project, which is funded by CLARIAH. The overall goal of this project is to use the...
by Willem van Peursen | Jan 27, 2021 | Bible, Computational Linguistics, events, Hebrew Bible, Open Science, Text-Fabric, Uncategorized
In the next months we will have an exciting schedule of research meetings and presentations. All will meetings will be online. For Zoom meetings send a request Prof. Wido van Peursen Thursday 4 Feb 2021 11.00–13.00 CET Wido van Peursen Digital Approaches to the Old...
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 Eliran Wong | Oct 30, 2019 | Bible, Database, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Learning, Open Science, Uncategorized
It was my pleasure to give a brief overview of BibleBento.com on the 40th anniversary of the ETCBC. I would like to share a little bit more here, including progress of the development since the presentation. I am a full-time church minister. I like collecting Bible...
