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 d.g.longacre@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 (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
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