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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Hebrew vocabulary training with the ETCBC database
The most frequent words in the Bible are a good startingpoint for learning Biblical Hebrew idiom. But what are the most frequent words? And what are the chapters in the Bble that contain the least number of unknown vocabulary to the beginning student? Jeremy Bullard investigated this and presents his results.
ETCBC≥40 Livestream
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...
ETCBC represented in Lublin (Poland) on conference about the Dead Sea Scrolls
I am writing this blog post from Lublin, Poland. Regularly, the members of the ETCBC present their work in the Netherlands and abroad. Now it is my turn. I will be presenting my research at the conference The Dead Sea Scrolls Seventy Years Later: Manuscripts,...