Dream Accounts in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Jewish Literature

Dissertation Abstracts Horn-motifs in the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient near Eastern Literature and Iconography

Parallel Texts in the Hebrew Bible, New Methods and Visualizations

In this article we develop an algorithm to detect parallel texts in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The results are presented online and chapters in the Hebrew Bible containing parallel passages can be inspected synoptically. Differences between parallel passages are highlighted. In a similar way the MT of Isaiah is presented synoptically with 1QIsa. We also investigate how one can inve...

Typesetting the Holy Bible in Hebrew, with TEX

This paper presents Tiqwah, a typesetting system for Biblical Hebrew, that uses the combined e orts of TEX, METAFONT and gnu Flex. The author describes its use and its features, discusses issues relevant to the design of fonts and placement of oating diacritics, and gives a list of rare cases and typographical curiosa which can be found in the Bible. The paper concludes with an example of Hebre...

Interactive Tools and Tasks for the Hebrew Bible

Ancient texts can support intertextuality in different ways through digital tools for databases and for tasks that scholars and studentsdo, when they interactwith the texts in new ways. This contribution explores how the corpus of the Hebrew Bible created and maintained by the Eep Talstra Center for Bible and Computer has potential for redefining the way we learn from our ancient texts as moder...

The Sicarii: Ancient Jewish "Terrorists"

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