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International
Conference on “The Bible and Computers: Present and Future of a
Discipline”
Congreso Internacional “Biblia e Informática: presente y futuro de una
disciplina”
El
Escorial (Madrid), June, 16th-19th, 2008
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Monday 16 June
9:30 Registration
11:00
Opening act
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Carlos Berzosa
Rector
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Luis Vegas
Congress President
Opening lecture by Marc Vervenne,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Rector.
13:30-15:00 Lunch
16:00
Main lecture by Emanuel Tov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel
Electronic Tools for Biblical Analysis at Home, at the University, and
in the Classroom
17:15
Short papers
- Oliver Glanz,
Werkgroep
Informatika Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Computer's Who is Who
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Drayton C. Benner, Chicago, IL, USA
Displaying Hebrew and
Aramaic on Handheld Devices
That
Lack Proper Complex Script Support
19:00
Computer demo / workshop
- J. José Alarcón - Andrés Piquer - Pablo Torijano, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Electronic Synoptic-Polyglot Edition of 1-2 Kings: Exhibition
Session.
- Bertram Salzmann, German Bible Society, Stuttgart, Germany
Presentation of the Stuttgart
Electronic Study Bible
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Tuesday
17 June
9:30
Main lecture by A. Dean Forbes, University of California, Palo
Alto, USA
The
Challenge of Consistency
10:45
Short papers
- Jan H. Kroeze, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Designing an interactive network graph of
modular
linguistic data in an XML database of
Biblical Hebrew.
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Yosef Ofer, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Ha-Keter Software for
Computerized Masoretic BibleText
Retrieval
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Andrés Enrique-Arias, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
”Biblia Medieval” (an electronic
corpus of
Spanish medieval Bible translations)
13:30-15:00 Lunch
16:00
Main lecture Christo van der Merwe, University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa
Biblical Hebrew Linguistics as Corpus Linguistics?
17:15
Short papers
- Wido van Peursen, Turgama Project, Leiden University,
The
Netherlands
A
Corpus-Based Analysis of Syriac Phrase Structure
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José Antonio Alvarez, St. Andrews University, Scotland, U.K.
An
alternative reading of 1
Kings
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19:00
Computer demo / workshop
- Carl J. Bosma, Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids,
MI, USA
The use of Bible
Software (Libronix) in teaching O.T. and N.T. courses
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Wednesday 18 June
9:30
Main lecture by Eep Talstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
System
and Design. What about linguistic data categories and Poetry?
10:45
Short papers
- Janet Dyk, Werkgroep Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Computers and Complex Phrase
Structures in Biblical Hebrew
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Javier del Barco, CSIC, Madrid, Spain - Guadalupe Seijas, UCM, Spain
Woes in Pre-Exilic Prophecy: A Computer-Assisted Study
on Syntax and Semantics
12:00
Visit to El Escorial Library
14:00-15:00 Lunch
16:00
Main lecture by Natalio Fernández Marcos, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
The
Greek Pentateuch and the Library of Alexandria
17:15
Short papers
- Reinhart Ceulemans, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Dealing
with Unanswered Questions Regarding the
Hexapla
in a New Computerized Edition
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Elizabeth Robar,
Hexapla Institute, Louisville, KY, USA
The Hexapla Project: Lessons
Learned
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Marco V. Fabbri, Pontificia Universitŕ della Santa Croce, Roma,
Italy
A computer-assisted
comparison of the vocabulary of Philo of Alexandria and the Wisdom of
Solomon
19:00
Closing act
21:00
Closing Dinner
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Thursday 19 June (Post-Congress)
9:15
Departure from El
Escorial to La Granja de San Ildefonso
10:00
Visit to
National Glass Museum and Royal Palace
14:30
Lunch restaurante
Casares (Segovia)
16:30
Guided
tour visiting Segovia city (cathedral, romanic churches, Jewry)
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