AIBI-7::
Ferdinand Poswick AIBI’s founder gave an interesting and insightful review of 25 years of Bible and computers: “
The Bible in the civilisation of the electronic writing: an evaluation (1985-2004)”
Dean Forbes presented his ongoing collaboration with Francis Andersen under the title
“Hebrew Grammar Visualised: Syntax and Discourse” which gave an insight into their current thinking.
The Spanish group were presented on
“Prefix Conjugation and Discourse” With presentations by:
Guadalupe Seijas
“Prefix conjugation and Discourse on Isaiah”
F.J. del Barco
“Prefix conjugation and Discourse on the Minor Prophets”
L. Vegas Montaner:
“Prefix conjugation and Discourse on Psalms”
J. Kroeze,
"Processing Hebrew clauses using three-dimensional arrays"
The second day was more mixed and as well as our session included an interesting paper (in French) which suggested some novel ways to use computer generated statistics to get students thinking about the working of biblical texts: D. Noel,
“Literary Approach with Statistical methods”