Full Description
Ancient texts, once written by hand on parchment and papyrus, are now increasingly discoverable online in newly digitized editions, and their readers now work online as well as in traditional libraries. So what does this mean for how scholars may now engage with these texts, and for how the disciplines of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies might develop? These are the questions that contributors to this volume address. Subjects discussed include textual criticism, palaeography, philology, the nature of ancient monotheism, and how new tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, databases and digital publications may transform the ways in which contemporary scholars engage with historical sources. Contributors attest to the emergence of a conscious recognition of something new in the way that we may now study ancient writings, and the possibilities that this new awareness raises.
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Abstracts
Preface
1. Introduction: Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies
Claire Clivaz
PART ONE: DIGITIZED MANUSCRIPTS
2. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. The Digitization Project of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Pnina Shor
3. Dead Sea Scrolls Inside Digital Humanities. A Sample
David Hamidović
4. The Electronic Scriptorium: Markup for New Testament Manuscripts
Hugh Houghton
5. Digital Arabic Gospels Corpus
Elie Dannaoui
6. The Role of the Internet in New Testament Textual Criticism: the Example of the Arabic Manuscripts of the New Testament
Sara Schulthess
7. The Falasha Memories Project. Digitalization of the Manuscript BNF, Ethiopien d'Abbadie
Charlotte Touati
PART TWO: DIGITAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING
8. The Seventy and Their 21st-Century Heirs. The Prospects for Digital Septuagint Research
Juan Garces
9. Digital Approaches to the Study of Ancient Monotheism
Ory Amitay
10. Internet Networks and Academic Research: the Example of the New Testament Textual Criticism
Claire Clivaz
11. New Ways of Searching with Biblindex, the Online Index of Biblical Quotations in Early Christian Literature
Laurence Mellerin
12. Aspects of Polysemy in Biblical Greek. A Preliminary Study for a New Lexicographical Resource
Romina Vergari
13. Publishing Digitally at the University Press? A Reader's Perspective
Andrew Gregory
14. Does not Biblical Studies Deserve to Be an Open Source Discipline?
Russell Hobson
Indices
Author index
Subject index
