Michal Bar-Asher Siegal. Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud

Stylometry in Computer-Assisted Translation: Experiments on the Babylonian Talmud

English. The purpose of this research is to experiment the application of stylometric techniques in the area of ComputerAssisted Translation to reduce the revision effort in the context of a collaborative, large scale translation project. The obtained results show a correlation between the editing extent and the compliance to some specific linguistic features, suggesting that supporting transla...

Babylonian and Indian Astronomy: Early Connections

Did the Indian and Babylonian astronomy evolve in isolation, was there mutual influence, or was one dependent on the other? Scholars have debated these questions for more than two centuries, and opinion has swung one way or the other with time. The similarities between the two systems that have been investigated are: the use of 30 divisions of the lunar month; the 360 divisions of the civil yea...

Identification with a woman? The hannah figure in the babylonian talmud

The opening to Christian theosophy in Iranian Literature

In this article the first christian written literary theosophical works will be synoptically brought forward. To this end the writer first runs over the historical eras of Iranian languages. Then Sogdian language from the Eastern Middle Iranian languages category will be introduced as the first language in which christian works have been written. Lastly Nestorianism the prevailing school of chr...

Signa mortifera: death and prognostication in early medieval monastic medicine.