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)

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.

13:00 CET

Jouke de Vries (President of the University of Groningen
Welcome

Mladen Pop ović (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

13:00 CET

Welcome

Session 4 - Digital Palaeography
Chair: Maruf Dhali

13:15	Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen) Dilemmas in Applying AI Methods in Ancient Paleography
13:45	Peter Stokes (École Pratique des Hautes Études) When is a Scribe Not a Scribe? Some Reflections on Writer Identification
	Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv University) Computational Paleography
14:15	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

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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