Elena L. Hertel, Stephan M. Unter, Kathrin Gabler, and Antonio Loprieno (Basel) Abstract The corpus of papyri housed in the Museo Egizio in Turin comprises some 9000 fragments and approximately 230 larger ensembles and forms the most extensive known papyrus archive from the Pharaonic period. [1]… Read more
Andrew Smith, Shepherds Theological Seminary Abstract In the late 1980s, businesses were collecting customer data because they knew it was valuable to what would later be termed business intelligence, but until the 1990s there was no clear path to how to mine and usefully exploit those data. The New Testament… Read more
Uri Schor, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Moshe Lavee, and Tsvi Kuflik University of Haifa 1. Introduction “Tanhuma / Yelamdenu Literature” is a vast literary corpus of rabbinic homilies to the Hebrew Bible. It is a diverse group of interrelated texts, evolved through a long process of fluid and unstable oral and written… Read more
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra “Imagine if you were to stop being first and foremost a scholar for a little while in order to take a job in which you could do something that would be useful not just to your personal career, but to the whole scholarly community. What would be the… Read more
Olga Serbaeva, with revisions by Hans Cools, Jan Clemens Stoffregen, and Roberta Padlina, Universities of Basel and Zurich Dedicated to the memory of Hans Cools who suddenly passed away in April 2021 in the middle of his thorough and fascinating work on Semantic Web Technology Some of the most tedious… Read more
Peter A. Stokes, Benjamin Kiessling, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Robin Tissot, and El Hassane Gargem EPHE – PSL (Paris, France), UMR 8546 Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOROC) 1. Introduction: What is eScriptorium The eScriptorium VRE is software being developed at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université Paris… Read more
Patrick Andrist, University of Munich 1. Structural Codicology and the Syntactical Descriptions of Manuscripts Books Structural codicology is the name recently given to a branch of codicology focusing on the structure of ancient and medieval codices using a holistic approach.* It was founded by Peter… Read more
Garrick V. Allen, Owen Conlan, Clare Conran, Christophe Debruyne, Troy Griffitts, Nishtha Jain, Matthew Nicholson, Declan O’Sullivan, Kelsie G. Rodenbiker, Anthony P. Royle, and Ulrich Schmid Introduction A new project began in December 2020 entitled Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation… Read more
Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, University of Basel Thanks to the dryness of the climate, texts written on papyrus leaves were preserved in Egypt and tens of thousands have reached us by chance today.* By far the most numerous are those written in ancient Greek, covering a millennium… Read more
Riccardo Macchioro Thousands of manuscripts witness to the huge circulation of Latin Patristic sermons throughout the Middle Ages, and it is hard to find two of them that are completely identical. [1] Homiliaries exhibit large variety with regard to size of the collection, codicological features, arrangement,… Read more
