Segmenting Dead Sea Scroll Fragments for a Scientific Image Set

Presents a multi-stage pipeline for segmenting Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments from IAA images, including multispectral thresholding for separating ink and parchment regions.

June 2024 · Bronson Brown-deVost, Berat Kurar-Barakat, Nachum Dershowitz

The Death of the Gods in the Old Greek Translation of Job

Examines how the Old Greek translator of Job engaged with passages concerning divine mortality, revealing interpretive strategies that reshape the theological landscape of the text.

June 2022 · Bronson Brown-deVost

What has Esther to Do with Qumran?

Investigates previous claims for knowledge of the Book of Esther at Qumran, arguing it is no longer tenable to posit any reference to or knowledge of Esther within the writings from Qumran.

March 2022 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Automated Font Generation

Presents a procedure for the automatic generation of manuscript-specific fonts based on letter-level coordinate data captured in the Scripta Qumranica Electronica virtual research environment.

January 2022 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Exploiting Insertion Symbols for Marginal Additions in the Recognition Process to Establish Reading Order

Proposes a method for exploiting insertion symbols found in historical manuscripts to correctly order marginal additions during the handwritten text recognition process.

September 2021 · Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Bronson Brown-deVost, Pawel Jablonski

BiblIA — a General Model for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts and an Open Annotated Dataset

Presents BiblIA, an open annotated dataset and handwritten text recognition model for medieval Hebrew manuscripts, enabling computational analysis across diverse scribal hands.

September 2021 · Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Bronson Brown-deVost, Pawel Jablonski, Hayim Lapin, Benjamin Kiessling, Elena Lolli

4QMMT

A comprehensive encyclopedia entry on 4QMMT, one of the most significant halakhic texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

January 2021 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Transcription Alignment for Highly Fragmentary Historical Manuscripts: The Dead Sea Scrolls

Develops an automated system to align transcriptions of highly fragmentary Dead Sea Scroll texts with visible glyphs on scroll images at the individual glyph level.

September 2020 · Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Bronson Brown-deVost, Nachum Dershowitz, Alexey Pechorin, Benjamin Kiessling

The Transmission History of 2 Kings 21:13b

Examines the Masoretic tradition of 2 Kings 21:13b and the significant variants in other biblical versions that have received virtually no scholarly attention.

July 2020 · Bronson Brown-deVost

1 Samuel 2:13–16 in the Context of Mediterranean Tariff Texts

Comparison with Phoenician and Greek sacrificial regulations of the mid-to-late first millennium BCE provides a socio-linguistic backdrop for understanding 1 Samuel 2:13–16 and for explaining many of its difficulties.

December 2018 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Aus der Höhle in die digitale Welt

A general-audience article presenting the journey of the Dead Sea Scrolls from cave discovery to digital research environments.

January 2018 · Bronson Brown-deVost, Annette Steudel

Scripta Qumranica Electronica (2016–2021)

Introduces the Scripta Qumranica Electronica project — a German-Israeli collaboration for the digital edition of Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts in a virtual research environment.

December 2016 · Bronson Brown-deVost

The Compositional Development of Qumran Pesharim in Light of Mesopotamian Commentaries

Uses manuscript remains of Mesopotamian commentaries from the first millennium BCE to construct a model for understanding how Qumran pesharim were composed, providing solutions to literary incongruities found in the pesharim.

June 2016 · Bronson Brown-deVost

4QEnc (4Q204) Column I: A New Reconstruction

Offers a new material and textual reconstruction of the first column of 4QEnc (4Q204), one of the Aramaic Enoch manuscripts from Qumran.

January 2016 · Bronson Brown-deVost