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Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script

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to - centuries of migrations, persecutions and censorship. With the recent digitization of the extant manuscripts and with contemporary advances in computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning, the time is ripe for broad new studies into this manuscript culture. We can now study questions regarding their materiality, textuality, transmission and historical contexts on an unprecedented scale or heretofore beyond reach. MIDRASH proposes a pioneering study of the extensive corpora of: (1) biblical manuscripts; (2) Midrash (late antique exegetical and homiletical commentary on the Bible); (3) medieval commentaries of the Bible and Mishnah; and (4) liturgical manuscripts. Only a small fraction have been transcribed, let alone studied. State-of-the-art and bespoke algorithms will be applied to resolve issues of reading order, code switching, and transcription errors. Once mechanically transcribed, known and unknown works will be identified and reconstructed and multilingual intertextualities discerned. The latest fine-grained paleographical techniques and trained

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