SCRIBES project

Development of a Web application for easy textual criticism, leveraging recent advances in automatic Natural Language Processing.

Funded by Biblissima+.

Stay tuned on our Github

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BENTO project

A two years project on the analysis of the variants of the Hebrew Ben Sira manuscripts.

Funded by the Lorraine University of Excellence.

Check out the complete XML transcription of Ben Sira

SHERBET project

A four years project on the implementation of computational stemmatology algorithms and their application to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible.

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Our team

The team is composed of one professor and three post-doctoral researchers.

Frédérique Michèle Rey

Frédérique is a full professor in theology and biblical studies at the University of Lorraine. She is director of the Revue de Qumrân and her fields of research concern the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jewish and Early Christian literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Period, and computational philology.

frederique.rey@univ-lorraine.fr

Davide D'Amico

Davide is a post-doctoral researcher in biblical studies, and he is specialized in ancient jewish writings.

davide.d-amico@univ-lorraine.fr

Events

Several events are organized by the biblical department. Stay tuned for more !

Py4SHS

A 2023 and 2024 summer school in digital humanities, with the purpose of introducing researchers in humanities to the possibilities of computational approaches.

More info here

COMPAS

The 2024 conference on computational phylogenetics and stemmatology, from the 6th-8th November 2024 in Metz.

More info here

Publications

  • Ben Sira edition by Frédérique Rey