Objectif The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has fundamentally transformed our knowledge of Jewish and Christian origins. The scrolls provide a unique vantage point for studying the dynamic and creative engagement with authoritative scriptures that were to become the Bible. They also offer evidence for a scribal culture ‘in action’. Palaeography can provide access to this scribal culture, showing the human hand behind what came to be regarded as holy texts.The main objective of this interdisciplinary project is to shed new light on ancient Jewish scribal culture and the making of the Bible by freshly investigating two aspects of the scrolls’ palaeography: the typological development of writing styles and writer identification. We will combine three different approaches to study these two aspects: palaeography, computational intelligence, and 14C-dating.The combination of new 14C samples and the use of computational intelligence as quantitative methods in order to assess the development of handwriting styles and to identify individual scribes is a unique strength of this project, which will provide a new and much-needed scientific and quantitative basis for the typological estimations of traditional palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The quantitative evidence will be used to cluster manuscripts as products of scribal activity in order to profile scribal production and to determine a more precise location in time for their activity, focusing, from literary and cultural-historical perspectives, on the content and genres of the texts that scribes wrote and copied and on the scripts and languages that they used.Through their scribal activities these anonymous scribes constructed a ‘textual community’ and negotiated identities of the movement behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. The exciting aspect of this project is the fact that it will, through the innovative and unconventional digital palaeographic analysis that we will be using, bring these scribal identities back to life. Champ scientifique lettreshistoire et archéologiehistoirehistoire anciennesciences naturellesinformatique et science de l'informationintelligence artificiellereconnaissance des formessciences naturellesinformatique et science de l'informationintelligence artificielleapprentissage automatiquelettreslangues et littératureétudes littéraireshistoire de la littératuresciences naturellesinformatique et science de l'informationintelligence artificielleintelligence de calcul Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Thème(s) ERC-StG-2014 - ERC Starting Grant Appel à propositions ERC-2014-STG Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement ERC-STG - Starting Grant Coordinateur RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Contribution nette de l'UE € 1 484 274,00 Adresse Broerstraat 5 9712CP Groningen Pays-Bas Voir sur la carte Région Noord-Nederland Groningen Overig Groningen Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Participation aux programmes de R&I de l'UE Opens in new window Réseau de collaboration HORIZON Opens in new window Autres sources de financement € 0,00 Bénéficiaires (1) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution nette de l'UE Tout développer Tout réduire RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN Pays-Bas Contribution nette de l'UE € 1 484 274,00 Adresse Broerstraat 5 9712CP Groningen Voir sur la carte Région Noord-Nederland Groningen Overig Groningen Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Participation aux programmes de R&I de l'UE Opens in new window Réseau de collaboration HORIZON Opens in new window Autres sources de financement € 0,00
