Von Teufel, Satan und Dämonen — Das Böse in den Werken von Qumran
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen · Winter Semester 2025/26 · Co-taught with Mirjam Bokhorst
Dead Sea Scrolls
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.
The Demotic Chronicle and the Qumran Pesharim: Purpose, Methods, and Genre
Presented at Egyptian Demotic Papyri and the Dead Sea Scrolls (DEMBIB), Berlin, May 2024.
Creating Collaborative Editions of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Hands-on Demonstration and Discussion
Invited lecture in the Digital Humanities Series, Ohio State University, April 2024.
Scripta Qumranica Electronica and Qumran Digital
Presented at Workshop on Digital Publication of Right-to-Left Script Corpora, University of Maryland, June 2023.
Automatically linking Dead Sea Scroll transcriptions to fragment images: Towards the letter level
Presented at 2022 IOQS, Zurich, August 2022.
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.
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.
4QMMT
A comprehensive encyclopedia entry on 4QMMT, one of the most significant halakhic texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
On the Critical Digital Edition: Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, online, December 2020.
Introduction to the Documentary Texts and Literary Interpretation Unit
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, online, November 2020.
Editing the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Scripta Qumranica Electronica VRE
Presented at VREs and Ancient Manuscripts Conference, Lausanne (online), September 2020.
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.
Digital Exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls with Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at The Dead Sea Scrolls in Recent Scholarship, New York University (online), May 2020.
Scripta Qumranica Electronica and the (Hu)man Behind the Curtain
Presented at Human–Machine Cooperation in Archaeology, Epigraphy and Ancient History, Ariel University, February 2020.
Reading 4Q51 through Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Diego, November 2019.
Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran
Compares cuneiform commentary texts from first millennium Mesopotamia with early Jewish pesharim from Qumran, arguing that textual difficulties in the pesharim can be explained through interpretive accretion practices documented in Mesopotamian commentaries.
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.
Digitale Editionen von fragmentarische Handschriften: Das Projekt Scripta Qumranica Electronica
Presented at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag, September 2017.
Das Projekt 'Scripta Qumranica Electronica': Texte, Bilder, und Datenbank
Presented at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag, September 2017.