Introduction to the ETCBC database and its use in teaching, presented at the NAPH Annual Conference, Amsterdam 25-27 June 2018 as part of a workshop "Data-driven teaching with the ETCBC database"
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1. Introduction to the ETCBC
database and its use in teaching
Wido van Peursen
Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer
NAPH Conference, June 25-27, Amsterdam
www.etcbc.nl /etcbc @etcbc_vu
7. Methodological principles
• Encoding rather than tagging.
• Form to function. Registration of textual
data before interpretation.
• Bottom-up: from smaller to larger
linguistic units.
8. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
9. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
Data creation: Interactive
procedures for text encoding
based on pattern recognition
10. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
11. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
• Direct access to Hebrew text query-saver
• Serendipity
• Persistent identifiers for reference
[Hebraists and Biblical scholars]
12. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
13. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
Tool for running Python
notebooks with
access to the information
in a TF resource
14. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-sky
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
15. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-sky
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
• Educational tool: Text as Tutor
(Nicolai WInther-Nielsen).
• Interfaces in English, Danish, Dutch,
Spanish, Portugese, Chinese
16. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-sky
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
17. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
18. Versions and representations
• Core database
• SHEBANQ
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
• Text-Fabric
• Bible Online Learner
http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk
• In other packages: Paratext, Accordance
• Deposited at DANS and available on GitHub
https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z6y-skyh
https://github.com/ETCBC/bhsa
19. Complex SHEBANQ Query: Direct Speech
This query finds all cases in which the same direct
speech introduction (same subject [e.g. Abraham]
speaks to the same complement [e.g. to Abimelech])
is repeated after the initial direct speech.
One would expect after the initial X speaks to Y: “[…]"
the construction Y speaks/answers to X: “[…]“
The query was inspired by Genesis 20:9-10 where
Abimelech initiated a direct speech twice without
Abraham responding after Abimelech’s first speech.
24. Final assignment
• Argument in scholarly literature:
VS > SV shift in Biblical Hebrew
• Student have to evaluate this claim:
– Analyse more data: all biblical books
– Select relevant linguistic features
– Create CSV files with relevant linguistic features
– Analyse the data with R
– Write a report with visualizations and explorative
analysis
25. Workshop 3.8 & 4.6
• Nicolai-Winter Nielsen: Bible OL
• Jeremy Bullard (read by Martijn Naaijer):
Finding the “Easiest” Chapters in the Bible
• Christiaan Erwich & Eveline van Staalduine:
SHEBANQ in the OT Exegesis classroom
• Eep Talstra: Interactive computer programs in
the classroom
• Martijn Naaijer: MA/PhD course Biblical
Studies & Digital Humanities
