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.

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MASTER OF ARTS

The ETCBC offers an MA specialization in Biblical Studies and Digital Humanities.

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Aligning Hebrew and Syriac Genesis. Initial Results of the PaTraCoSy Project. 

Aligning Hebrew and Syriac Genesis. Initial Results of the PaTraCoSy Project. 

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...

Using the ETCBC database for exploring social networks in Biblical law

Using the ETCBC database for exploring social networks in Biblical law

  The Mosaic laws of the Torah are quite unusual, embedded as they are in the narrative of the Torah. Thus, they are not only commands and prohibitions but relate intrinsically to the grand storyline of Torah extending from creation to the impending conquest of...