Corrections to Langdon's "Sumerian Liturgical Texts"

Unsupervised Sumerian Personal Name Recognition

This paper describes an unsupervised named-entity recognition (NER) system to identify personal names in Sumerian cuneiform documents from the Ur III period. We are motivated by the needs of social and economic historians of that period to identify specific persons of importance and such historically relevant facts as can be discerned by the surviving texts. The work was confronted by the chall...

Additions and corrections to names published in Cercospora in Iran

In this paper the taxonomy of some previously reported taxa as Cercospora apii s.lat. in Iran, is discussed and some new records are listed. Cercospora species on Abelia grandiflora (C. deutziae), Erythrina crista-galli (C. erythrinicola), Euphorbia heterophylla (C. pulcherrimae) and Zanthedeschia aethiopica (C. richardiicola) are new for mycobiota of Iran. Cercospora iridis which was previousl...

Creating Tools for Morphological Analysis of Sumerian

Sumerian is a long-extinct language documented throughout the ancient Middle East, arguably the first language for which we have written evidence, and is a language isolate (i.e. no related languages have so far been identified). The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), based at the University of Oxford, aims to make accessible on the web over 350 literary works composed durin...

Codex Angelicus 123 as a Liturgical Manuscript

Fides Quaerens Corporalitatem: Perspectives on liturgical embodiment

Fides Quaerens Corporalitatem: Perspectives on liturgical embodiment In the light of a number of paradigm shifts that have taken place in practical theological methodology, this article proposes an integrative approach that takes the fundamental role of embodiment into account. A brief discussion of the theological understanding of embodiment is followed by a reflection on certain liturgical im...