Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2025 | Viewed by 89
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit an article for this Special Issue of Religions entitled “Computational Approaches to Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts”. In light of recent advances in Digital Humanities, the scholarly fields concerned with ancient Jewish and Christian texts have experienced an explosive development, not only in accessibility to digital material and text corpora, but also in the application of computational/algorithmic approaches. Concepts like “macro analysis” and “distant reading” have helped widen the scope of literary analyses, and the scope of this Special Issue is to further advance research in this area with a clear focus on ancient Jewish and Christian texts.
The Special Issue aims to showcase and advance computational/algorithmic approaches to scholarly fields connected to Second Temple Judaism, New Testament Studies, and Early Christianity. The goal of this Special Issue is to combine scholarly research at a high, international level with groundbreaking computational/algorithmic approaches. As a scholarly field oriented around texts, literary approaches dealing with classic literary analyses focused on, for instance, genre, narrative, characters, style, tropes, intertextuality, author, gender, ethnicity, religion, ideology, and so on are very welcome.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors submit a proposed title and abstract of 200-300 words summarizing the intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editor, or to the Assistant Editor Ms. Violet Li ([email protected]) of Religions. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editor for the purpose of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review. Please submit the 200-300 word abstract by 1 February 2025 for our consideration and, if accepted, your full manuscript by 1 June 2025. Manuscripts are to be 5000+ words.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jacob P.B. Mortensen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- New Testament
- scriptures of Israel
- early Christian texts
- computational and algorithmic approaches
- distant reading
- macro analysis
- text analysis
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