by Willem van Peursen | May 30, 2023 | Bible, manuscripts, Syriac
By Geert Jan Veldman MA, Zwolle It happened often in conversations in the more southern parts of the United States of America, that a conversation partner asked me something like “Why on earth you want to visit one of the coldest parts of mainland USA?”, when I...
by Willem van Peursen | Oct 8, 2020 | Bible, Database, manuscripts, Peshitta, Syriac
In cooperation with Brill publishers, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) and the Peshitta Foundation have prepared an electronic version of Leiden Peshitta edition, Vetus Testamentum Syriace. With the recent publication of the volume containing...
by Constantijn Sikkel | Jan 23, 2019 | Computational Linguistics, Text-Fabric
On 17-18 January, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) organised a ‘boot camp’ on NLP tools for Syriac. The response was a bit overwhelming; we had to close the registration well before the deadline, because the limit of twenty-five...
by Willem van Peursen | Sep 11, 2018 | Bible, events, linguistics
Due to the overwhelming response, we reached the maximum of participants even long before the registration deadline and have to close the registration for this event. In the CLARIAH funded project “LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data”, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and...
by Srecko Koralija | Mar 15, 2018 | news
The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) organized a workshop on Linked Data and Syriac Sources held at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (12-13 March 2018). The event was related to the ETCBS Research Pilot Project LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data and...
