In this paper we present a project of creating a web based interactive encyclopedia of historical knowledge related to the history of the religions, the Bible and the history in general. The main source of information in the project is a film made by the Israel Museum that accompanies the exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls the oldest remaining copies of the Bible and extra Biblical documents. T...

Introduction Karaism, a messianic Jewish movement founded in the Middle Ages, sought to redefine Jewish religious practice by re-centering it on the “Written Law” (i.e., the Hebrew Bible) in its entirety, and rejecting the “Oral Law” as codified in the Mishnah and Talmud. The Karaites also reversed the structure of the traditional Jewish canon, placing biblical study and the sub-disciplines rel...

[TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: Translation of Friedrich Ohly, ‘‘Vom geistigen Sinn des Wortes im Mittelalter’’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 89 (1958), 1–23; reprinted in: Libelli 218 (Darmstadt, 1966); reprinted in: Friedrich Ohly, Schriften zur mittelalterlichen Bedeutungsforschung (Darmstadt, 1977), pp. 1–31. The translation is published by kind permission of Frau Dr Marian...

What can you do with multiple noisy versions of the same text? We present a method which generates a single consensus between multi-parallel corpora. By maximizing a function of linguistic features between word pairs, we jointly learn a single corpus-wide multiway alignment: a consensus between 27 versions of the English Bible. We additionally produce English paraphrases, word-level distributio...

We present a simple method for learning part-of-speech taggers for languages like Akawaio, Aukan, or Cakchiquel – languages for which nothing but a translation of parts of the Bible exists. By aggregating over the tags from a few annotated languages and spreading them via wordalignment on the verses, we learn POS taggers for 100 languages, using the languages to bootstrap each other. We evaluat...