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.
Presents a multi-stage pipeline for segmenting Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments from IAA images, including multispectral thresholding for separating ink and parchment regions.
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.
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.
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.
Proposes a method for exploiting insertion symbols found in historical manuscripts to correctly order marginal additions during the handwritten text recognition process.
Presents BiblIA, an open annotated dataset and handwritten text recognition model for medieval Hebrew manuscripts, enabling computational analysis across diverse scribal hands.
A comprehensive encyclopedia entry on 4QMMT, one of the most significant halakhic texts found among 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.
Examines the Masoretic tradition of 2 Kings 21:13b and the significant variants in other biblical versions that have received virtually no scholarly attention.
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.
A general-audience article presenting the journey of the Dead Sea Scrolls from cave discovery to digital research environments.
Introduces the Scripta Qumranica Electronica project — a German-Israeli collaboration for the digital edition of Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts in a virtual research environment.
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.
Offers a new material and textual reconstruction of the first column of 4QEnc (4Q204), one of the Aramaic Enoch manuscripts from Qumran.