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

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?

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)

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
Analyis of Hebrew Character Mem

Schriftenmetric – A Digital Humanities Method to Analyze Ancient Jewish Scripts

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
A Life of Books and Computers

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

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)

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

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

May 11, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

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

Palaeographical Analysis of 1QS+ab 5:1 (4Q256 3:1 [olim frag. 4] and 4Q258 1:1): A Blurb about my PhD Thesis

May 5, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Anyone in the field of Qumran studies will know the scroll of 1QS. For those who are not familiar with…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, palaeography Filed under: Manuscripts, Material Culture, Qumran, Scribal Culture, The Rule of the Community

Interlude

February 23, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

I’ve not forgotten about my series, On 2D Material Reconstruction of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Midrash Fridays. I’ve been…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Judean Desert Scrolls Filed under: Bibliography, Material Philology, Textual Criticism, The Rule of the Community

Midrash Fridays: Explanation of the Format (Part II)

January 3, 2020 James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In my doctoral comprehensive exams, I was asked to list out what material I wanted on my exams. Since I…

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Posted in: Friday Midrash Filed under: Aramaic, Deuteronomy 1:1, Latin, Law and Language, Legal Interpretation, Old Greek, Qumran, Samaritan Pent., Sifrei Devarim, Syriac

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