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Looking forward to 2021

ט״ו בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (December 30, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

We are all agreed that 2020 was a challenging year. To be sure, we will be affected by this year…

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Posted in: Status Report Filed under: Doctoral Thesis, Ethics in Digital Humanities, Material Reconstruction

On Material Reconstruction: No More Guessing Games

ה׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (October 23, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

As I prepare my edition of 1QS+ab for publication, I am creating an apparatus that proposes legitimate reconstructions. By legitimate…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: 1QSb, QImron, Schriftenmetric

Schriftenmetric – A Digital Humanities Approach to Scroll Reconstruction (Part IV.1)

כ״ד באלול ה׳תש״פ (September 13, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In the last post of this series, I began to change gears by introducing a digital humanities approach to philological…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: Ethics, Palaeography, Research Methods, Schriftenmetric

Ancient Scribal Reading Practices: Did the Tradents of Qumran Read with a Yad?

י״ד באלול ה׳תש״פ (September 3, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

As one of the earliest manuscripts discovered in the Judaean Desert, the so-called Community Rule has been the subject of…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Judean Desert Scrolls, Rabbinics Filed under: Ancient Reading Practices, Community Rule, Halakha, Midrash, Purity, Scribal Performances

Hebrew Semantics – Reframing it All (with a note on 1QS)

ל׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (August 20, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Have you heard someone say, “It’s just a matter of semantics, isn’t?” or “We are just talking semantics, aren’t we?”…

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Posted in: Hebrew Lexicography Filed under: Frame-Semantics, Hebrew Lexicons, Scholarship, Semantics, Wernberg-Møller
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Schriftenmetric – A Digital Humanities Method to Analyze Ancient Jewish Scripts

כ״ט באב ה׳תש״פ (August 19, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

I’ve mentioned in the past that I have devised a methodology whereby I utilise Deep Neural Networks to analyse a…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: Deep Neural Networks, Digital Palaeography, PhD Thesis, Schriftenmetric, University of Toronto

Regions of Interest Quantified – Introduction to a Digital Humanities Solution to Editorial Methods (Part III.5)

י״ט באב ה׳תש״פ (August 9, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In the previous post of this series, we surfaced some significant issues relating to the reconstruction of 1QSa II 11–12.…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: DJD, Editorial Practices, Editorial Theory, Jupyter Lab, Philology, Python

Regions of Interest Quantified – Solving Problems of the Analogue Methods of the Discoveries in the Judean Desert Series (Part III.4)

ז׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (July 28, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

It has been sometime since I have posted in this series. Since I am currently on vacation, I thought I…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: 1QSa, Palaeography, PAM

Job Search – Ups and Downs

ט׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (July 1, 2020) James M. Tucker 1 Comment

The coronavirus has hit society hard, revealing many weaknesses in our social system, but also highlighting some newfound strengths. One…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: Digital Humanities, Lying Pen

eWorkshop – Digital Methods of Material Reconstruction: The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Dead Sea Scrolls

י״ז באייר ה׳תש״פ (May 11, 2020) James M. Tucker 5 Comments

Over the past several years, I have been writing my doctoral thesis on the The Community Rule Manuscripts discovered in…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities

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