{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-hebrew-bible-as-data-laboratory-sharing","title":"The Hebrew Bible as Data: Laboratory - Sharing - Experiences","arxiv_id":"1501.01866","date":"2015-01-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["Dirk Roorda"],"abstract":"The systematic study of ancient texts including their production,\ntransmission and interpretation is greatly aided by the digital methods that\nstarted taking off in the 1970s. But how is that research in turn transmitted\nto new generations of researchers? We tell a story of Bible and computer across\nthe decades and then point out the current challenges: (1) finding a stable\ndata representation for changing methods of computation; (2) sharing results in\ninter- and intra-disciplinary ways, for reproducibility and\ncross-fertilization. We report recent developments in meeting these challenges.\nThe scene is the text database of the Hebrew Bible, constructed by the Eep\nTalstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC), which is still growing in detail\nand sophistication. We show how a subtle mix of computational ingredients\nenable scholars to research the transmission and interpretation of the Hebrew\nBible in new ways: (1) a standard data format, Linguistic Annotation Framework\n(LAF); (2) the methods of scientific computing, made accessible by\n(interactive) Python and its associated ecosystem. Additionally, we show how\nthese efforts have culminated in the construction of a new, publicly accessible\nsearch engine SHEBANQ, where the text of the Hebrew Bible and its underlying\ndata can be queried in a simple, yet powerful query language MQL, and where\nthose queries can be saved and shared.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01866v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.01866v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-hebrew-bible-as-data-laboratory-sharing","repo_url":"https://github.com/Dans-labs/text-fabric","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}