S20-211a Hebrew Bible Technology Buffet

On Sunday, November 20th 2016, from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM, GERT will host a session with the theme “Hebrew Bible Technology Buffet” at the SBL Annual Meeting in room 305 of the Convention Center. Barry Bandstra of Hope College will preside.

The session has four presentations:

• Janet Dyk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Dirk Roorda, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Valence Patterns and Translation Proposals within SHEBANQ (30 min)
• Mathias Coeckelbergs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Using Topic Modeling for Multilingual Concept Comparison. Evidence from the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint (30 min)
• Randall Tan, Global Bible Initiative Total Link: The Power of Alignment for Bible Translation (30 min)
• Drayton C. Benner, Miklal Software Solutions and James R. Covington, University of Chicago A New Transliteration of the Hebrew Bible (30 min)

Presentations will be followed by a discussion session.