[D-Scribes List] Program: Digital Palaeography and Hebrew/Aramaic Scribal Culture

[Isabelle Santaniello]

Digital Palaeography and Hebrew/Aramaic Scribal Culture

  

The 2021 International Online Groningen Symposium

6–8 April 2021

13:00–20:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

  

Hosted by the

Qumran Institute (University of Groningen)

Bernoulli Institute (University of Groningen)

   

To register, please email Drew Longacre at  <mailto:d.g.longacre at rug.nl> d.g.longacre at rug.nl.

A Zoom invitation will be sent to presenters and registered attendees on 5 April.

  

Tuesday, 6 April

 

13:00 CET       Jouke de Vries (President of the University of Groningen)

                        Welcome

 

                        Mladen Popović (University of Groningen)

                        Introduction

  

Session 1 — The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography

Chair: Eibert Tigchelaar

 

13:15         Mladen Popović (University of Groningen)

Digital Palaeography for Identifying the Unknown Scribes and Dating the Undated Manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls

 

13:45         Maruf Dhali (University of Groningen)

Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Techniques in Analyzing the Dead Sea Scrolls

 

14:15         Gemma Hayes (University of Groningen)

    Digital Palaeography and the Scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls 

 

14:45         Drew Longacre (University of Groningen)

Data Mining for Writer Identification: The Test Case of the Dead Sea Psalm Scrolls

 

15:15         Discussion

 

15:30–16:15    Break

 

 

Session 2 —  The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Radiocarbon Dating

Chair: Mladen Popović

 

16:15         Kaare Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark)

The 14C Dating in the ERC project “The Hands that Wrote the Bible”: Chemical Aspects and the Cleaning of the Samples

 

16:45         Hans van der Plicht (University of Groningen)

The 14C Dating in the ERC project “The Hands that Wrote the Bible”: Physical Aspects and the Measurement of the 14C Content

 

17:15         Discussion

 

 

17:30–18:15    Break

 

 

Session 3 —  Hebrew/Aramaic Palaeography

Chair: Drew Longacre

 

18:15         Michael Langlois (University of Strasbourg)

Deciphering Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Inscriptions in a Digital World: Potential and Limitations

 

18:45         James Moore (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

Toward a Systematic Description of the Imperial Aramaic Script and its Meaning for Dating and Writer Identification

 

PROJECT UPDATES

 

19:15         Bronson Brown-deVost (University of Göttingen)

Scripta Qumranica Electronica

 

19:30         Daniel Stoekl ben Ezra (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

eScripta

 

19:45         Sarah Yardney and Miller Prosser (University of Chicago)

    CEDAR/OCHRE

 

20:00   Conclusion

 




 

Wednesday, 7 April

 

13:00 CET       Welcome

 

 

Session 4 —  Digital Palaeography

Chair: Maruf Dhali

 

13:15         Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen)

TBD

 

13:45         Peter Stokes (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

When is a Scribe Not a Scribe? Some Reflections on Writer Identification

 

14:15         Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv University)

    Computational Paleography

 

14:45         Discussion

 

 

15:00–15:45    Break

 

 

Session 5 —  Digital Palaeography

Chair: Lambert Schomaker

 

15:45         Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin (Tel Aviv University)

Algorithmic Handwriting Analysis of Iron Age Documents and its Implications to the Composition of Biblical Texts

 

16:15         Hussein Mohammed (Universität Hamburg)

Pattern-Recognition Approaches for Handwriting-Style Analysis

 

16:45         Eythan Levy (Tel Aviv University) and Frédéric Pluquet (Haute École Louvain en Hainaut [HELHa] - Tournai and Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique [ESI] - Brussels)

New Developments in the Scrypt Software for Old Hebrew Epigraphy

 

17:15         Discussion

 

 

17:30–18:15    Break

 

 




 

Session 6 —  Hebrew/Aramaic Palaeography

Chair: Gemma Hayes

 

18:15         Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)

Hebrew Palaeography Album: A New Online Tool to Study Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

 

18:45         Elvira Martín-Contreras ( <https://csic.academia.edu/> Spanish National Research Council)

Distinguishing Scribal Hands in the Masora of the Medieval Hebrew Bible Manuscripts

 

PROJECT UPDATES

 

19:15         Joe Uziel (Israel Antiquities Authority)

IAA projects

 

19:30         Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (University of Basel)

D-Scribes

 

19:45         James Moore (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

       Elephantine

 

20:00   Conclusion

 




 

Thursday, 8 April

 

13:00 CET       Welcome

 

 

Session 7 —  Hebrew/Aramaic Palaeography and Textual Communities

Chair: Mladen Popović

 

13:15         Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven)

Scribal Culture, Palaeography, and the Scrolls

 

13:45         Ayhan Aksu (University of Groningen)

Leaving No Scroll Unturned: Opisthographs and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls 

 

14:15         Hanneke van der Schoor (KU Leuven)

Assessing Palaeographic Variation in Informal Manuscripts: The Scribe(s) of the Testament of Qahat and Visions of Amrame

 

14:45         Discussion

 

 

15:00–15:45    Break

 

 

Session 8 —  Hebrew/Aramaic Palaeography

Chair: Ayhan Aksu

 

15:45         Nadia Vidro (University College London)

Calendars from the Cairo Genizah as a Dating Tool for Palaeography

 

16:15         Estara J Arrant (University of Cambridge)

>From Scholastic to Scribal: A Developmental Analysis of “Unprofessional” Square Hebrew Script from Cairo Genizah Bible Fragments

 

16:45         Elihu Shannon (Sofer STaM)

Why My Script is Different from My Teacher's

 

17:15         Discussion

 

 

17:30–18:15    Break

 

 




 

Session 9 —  Final Discussion Panels

Chairs: Drew Longacre and Maruf Dhali

 

18:15         Digital Palaeography Panel Discussion

 

18:45         Hebrew/Aramaic Palaeography and Scribal Culture Panel Discussion

 

19:15         Final Open Discussion


20:00   Conclusion

 

 

 

Drew Longacre
Postdoctoral Researcher
ERC Project, “The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls”
M +31 (0)6 40 15 33 45
d.g.longacre at rug.nl <mailto:d.g.longacre at rug.nl> 

Faculty of Theology
University of Groningen
Oude Boteringestraat 38
9712 GK Groningen
The Netherlands





On Mar 23, 2021, at 18:07, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello <i.marthot-santaniello at unibas.ch <mailto:i.marthot-santaniello at unibas.ch> > wrote:

 

Dear Drew,

with pleasure, but I’m not sure I can send a pdf, would you have it in an email that I can forward?

All the best

Isabelle

 

De : D.G. Longacre <d.g.longacre at rug.nl <mailto:d.g.longacre at rug.nl> > 
Envoyé : Dienstag, 23. März 2021 17:28
À : Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello <i.marthot-santaniello at unibas.ch <mailto:i.marthot-santaniello at unibas.ch> >
Objet : Digital Palaeography and Hebrew/Aramaic Scribal Culture

 

Dear Isabelle, 

 

Could you please forward the final conference program to the D-Scribes mailing list?

 

Thanks,

 

Drew Longacre
Postdoctoral Researcher
ERC Project, “The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls”
M +31 (0)6 40 15 33 45
 <mailto:d.g.longacre at rug.nl> d.g.longacre at rug.nl

Faculty of Theology
University of Groningen
Oude Boteringestraat 38
9712 GK Groningen
The Netherlands

 

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