The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Project Information

HandsandBible

Grant agreement ID: 640497

DOI 10.3030/640497

Project closed

EC signature date 4 June 2015

Start date 1 November 2015

End date 28 February 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 484 274,00

EU contribution € 1 484 274,00

Coordinated by

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Other (6)

Degraded-Manuscript Binarization in Diverse Document Textures and Layouts using Deep Encoder-Decoder Networks

Author(s): Dhali, Maruf A.; de Wit, Jan Willem; Schomaker, Lambert
Published in: ArXiv. Cornell University Press, Issue 5, 2019
Publisher: ArXiv, Cornell University

Archives and Libraries

Author(s): Mladen Popović
Published in: T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, 2019, Page(s) 71–73
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Artificial Intelligence Based Writer Identification Generates New Evidence for the Unknown Scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exemplified by the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)

Author(s): Popović, Mladen; Dhali, Maruf A.; Schomaker, Lambert
Published in: ArXiv, Cornell University, 2020
Publisher: ArXiv, Cornell University

4.1.3.2.1 Hebrew and Aramaic Palaeography (Ancient)

Author(s): Drew Longacre and Eibert Tigchelaar
Published in: Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 3, edited by Russell Fuller, 2017
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_225895

Naḥal Ḥever

Author(s): Mladen Popović
Published in: The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media, 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Scripts and Scribal Practices

Author(s): Mladen Popović
Published in: T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, 2019, Page(s) 713–716
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Book chapters (6)

Multilinear Genealogical Networks: Expanding the Scope of Textual History

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: From Scribal Error to Rewriting: How Ancient Texts Could and Could Not Be Changed, 2020, Page(s) 181–198, ISBN 978-3-525-52209-7
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
DOI: 10.13109/9783666522093.181

Methods for the Reconstruction of Large Literary (Sc)rolls from Fragmentary Remains

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millenium, Issue Textual History of the Bible Supplements 6, 2022, Page(s) 110–141, ISBN 9789004499331
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004499331_004

Pseudepigraphy and a Scribal Sense of the Past in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Copy of the Book of the Words of the Vision of Amram

Author(s): Mladen Popović
Published in: Is There a Text in This Cave? Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke, 2017, Page(s) 308-318, ISBN 978-90-04-34453-2
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004344532_018

2. Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea

Author(s): Mladen Popović
Published in: Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, 2018, Page(s) 46-71, ISBN 9783-110596601
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110596601-003

Scribal Approaches to Damaged Manuscripts: Not Just a Modern Dilemma

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities. Method, Theory, Meaning: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4–7 August, 2013), Issue Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 125, 2018, Page(s) 141-164, ISBN 9789004376397
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004376397_008

The Parting of the Ways of Old and New Testament Textual Criticism: Deconstructing a Disciplinary Division

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: Written for Our Instruction: Essays in Honor of William Varner, 2021, Page(s) 87–111, ISBN 978-1-948048-54-5
Publisher: Ad Fontes Press

Peer reviewed articles (8)

The 11Q5 Psalter as a Scribal Product: Standing at the Nexus of Textual Development, Editorial Processes, and Manuscript Production

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Issue 134/1, 2022, Page(s) 85–111, ISSN 0044-2526
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2022-0004

Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, Issue 7/1, 2021, Page(s) 7–50, ISSN 2410-0951
Publisher: Universität Hamburg
DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.8898

Paleographic Style and the Forms and Functions of the Dead Sea Psalm Scrolls: A Hand Fitting for the Occasion?

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: Vetus Testamentum, 2021, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 1568-5330
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685330-bja10019

Feature-extraction methods for historical manuscript dating based on writing style development

Author(s): Dhali, Maruf A.; Jansen, Camilo Nathan; de Wit, Jan Willem; Schomaker, Lambert
Published in: urn:issn:0167-8655, Issue 2, 2020, Page(s) 413–420, ISSN 0167-8655
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2020.01.027

Reconsidering the Date of the En-Gedi Leviticus Scroll (EGLev): Exploring the Limitations of the Comparative-Typological Paleographic Method

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: Textus, Issue 27/1, 2018, Page(s) 44-84, ISSN 0082-3767
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/2589255x-02701004

Reading, Writing, and Memorizing Together: Reading Culture in Ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls in a Mediterranean Context

Author(s): Mladen Popović
Published in: Dead Sea Discoveries, Issue 24/3, 2017, Page(s) 447-470, ISSN 0929-0761
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341447

Disambiguating the Concept of Formality in Palaeographic Descriptions: Stylistic Classification and the Ancient Jewish Hebrew/Aramaic Scripts

Author(s): Drew Longacre
Published in: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, Issue 5/2, 2019, Page(s) 101–128, ISSN 2410-0951
Publisher: Universität Hamburg
DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.739

Artificial intelligence based writer identification generates new evidence for the unknown scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls exemplified by the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa).

Author(s): Mladen Popovic; Maruf A. Dhali; Lambert Schomaker
Published in: VOLUME=16;ISSUE=4;ISSN=1932-6203;TITLE=PLoS ONE, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249769

Conference proceedings (1)

A Digital Palaeographic Approach towards Writer Identification in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author(s): Maruf A. Dhali, Sheng He, Mladen Popović, Eibert Tigchelaar, Lambert Schomaker
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 2017, Page(s) 693-702, ISBN 978-989-758-222-6
Publisher: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0006249706930702