ABOUT EEP TALSTRA CENTRE FOR BIBLE AND COMPUTER
The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer is a research center at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Theology. The ETCBC develops and maintains an advanced syntactic database of the Hebrew Bible and researches issues related to Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac syntax and exegesis by applying computational and statistical methods.
MASTER OF ARTS
The ETCBC offers an MA specialization in Biblical Studies and Digital Humanities.
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Workshop: Linked Data and Syriac Sources, 12-13 March 2018
With the generous support of the Van Moorsel en Rijnierse Foundation the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) will organize a workshop on Linked Data and Syriac Sources, related to its CLARIAH Research Pilot Project LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data. In the...
Text-hierarchic trees in the ETCBC database
Textual hierarchy The topmost linguistic level in the ETCBC analysis deals with textual hierarchy: decoding the linguistic cohesion of a written text. The point of departure is the assumption that a text is not just a linear arrangement of clauses, but that these...
Upcoming Spring Colloquiums
The ETCBC would like to welcome all who are interested to our upcoming colloquiums throughout the Spring semester. We will have a variety of speakers, touching on topics such as Hebrew vocabulary training and statistical approaches to diachronic Hebrew language...