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Computer Confirmation of “P” – A Biblicist’s Perspective

Computer Confirmation of “P” – A Biblicist’s Perspective

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Joshua Berman is a lecturer in Tanach at Bar-Ilan University and an associate fellow at the Shalem Center. His most recent book, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford, 2008) was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship in 2008. Prof. Moshe Koppel—a revered friend and senior colleague—has produced what is for me as a biblicist is a fascinating and exciting study. His demonstrated capacity to tease apart books like Jeremiah and Ezekiel when their…

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Attribution and Misattribution: On Computational Linguistics, Heresy and Journalism

Attribution and Misattribution: On Computational Linguistics, Heresy and Journalism

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Prof. Moshe Koppel is on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively on authorship attribution, as well as on a diverse array of topics of Jewish and scientific interest. A few days ago, newspaper readers from New Jersey to New Zealand read about new computer software that “sheds light on the authorship of the Bible” . By the time the news circled back to Israel, farteitcht and farbessert, readers of Haaretz were (rather…

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