ABOUT EEP TALSTRA CENTRE FOR BIBLE AND COMPUTER
The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer is a research center at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Theology. The ETCBC develops and maintains an advanced syntactic database of the Hebrew Bible and researches issues related to Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac syntax and exegesis by applying computational and statistical methods.
MASTER OF ARTS
The ETCBC offers an MA specialization in Biblical Studies and Digital Humanities.
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HTR for Syriac Manuscripts: An Assessment as of March 2026
My doctoral research focuses on computational linguistic analysis of the Syrohexaplaric version of Ben Sira. While the transcription of the complete text (50 chapters from the 8th-century Codex Ambrosianus) has already been almost completed manually, I recently...
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew. Hybrid Expert Meeting | 7 November 2025
Scholars increasingly apply Cognitive Linguistic methods to study the language of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). A variety of these approaches have led to important insights for the analysis of Biblical Hebrew, especially with regard to the study of its meaning....
Symposium “Valency Grammar and Biblical Languages”
A symposium was organized on the 4th and 5th of April by the ETF Leuven, Noster, and the Netherlands-Flemish Bible Society in Leuven on the topic of valency grammar in the Biblical languages. The event featured a comprehensive discussion of the history of the research...