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

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Programme online ETCBC meetings Fall semester 2020

Programme online ETCBC meetings Fall semester 2020

We are happy to announce the ETCBC meetings for the Fall semester. All meetings will be online through Zoom. Tuesday 22 September 2020, 11.00 am CET Text Features and Text Display in Text Fabric Dirk Roorda Text-Fabric, the Python package that...

“Dark I am and/but lovely”

“Dark I am and/but lovely”

(And why you should follow the new online minor programme in Bible Translation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) By Lourens de Vries The Hebrew conjunction we in The Song of Solomon (1:5) can be rendered by “and” or “but” and translations have gone both ways. What’s a...