Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture

David Hamidović (1) , Claire Clivaz (2) , Sarah Bowen Savant (3) , Alessandra Marguerat (1)

1 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne
2 SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [Lausanne]
3 AKU - Aga Kahn University

Publication in open access thanks to the support of the SNSF Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.

Mots clés: Digital Humanities; Ancient Manuscripts; Text Mining; Digital Culture; Communication; Digital Biblical Series

Domaines: Religions; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz, Sarah Bowen Savant, Alessandra Marguerat. Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture: Visualisation, Data Mining, Communication. BRILL, 3, 2019, Digital Biblical Studies, ⟨10.1163/9789004399297⟩. ⟨hal-02477210⟩