Skip to content

The Digital Orientalist

Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.

Primary Navigation

  • About The Digital Orientalist
  • Editorial Team
    • About Cornelis van Lit
    • About Maddalena Poli
    • About James Harry Morris
    • About Jonathan Robker
    • About Mariana Zorkina
    • About Elizabeth Bishop
    • About Zachary Butler
    • About Alice Casalini
    • About Rohan Chauhan
    • About Christopher Diamond
    • About Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá
    • About Matthew Hayes
    • About Ephrem Ishac
    • About Henry Jacobs
    • About 김병준 Byungjun Kim
    • About Tyler Kynn
    • About Elizabeth Lee
    • About Shiva Mihan
    • About So Miyagawa
    • About Thomas Newhall
    • About Adrian Plau
    • About Lu Wang
    • About Anaïs Wion
    • About Theodora Zampaki
  • Topics
    • African Studies
    • African Languages
    • Ancient Near Eastern Studies
    • Archiving
    • Between Legal and Illegal
    • Buddhist Studies
    • Chinese Language
    • Coding
    • DH in General
    • DH in Practice
    • Digital Cartography
    • Digitization
    • Equipment
    • Events & Conferences
    • Hardware
    • Housekeeping
    • Indian Studies
    • Islamic Studies
    • Iranian Studies
    • Islamic Languages
    • Japanese Studies
    • Mongolian Studies
    • OCR
    • Online Resources
    • Ottoman Studies
    • Sinology
    • Social Media
    • Software
    • Syriac Studies
    • Teaching
    • Textual Analysis
    • Theory
    • Using Real Paper
    • Visualization
    • Workflow
    • Korean Studies
  • Social Media
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • Youtube
  • Guest Contributors & Hall of Fame
  • The Digital Orientalist’s Conferences
    • Twitter Conference #DOsTC2020
    • The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021
    • Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Conference “Infrastructures”
      • Titles and abstracts
      • Infrastructures. Schedule
  • Publications
  • Search
  • ISSN: 2772-8374

Author: Jonathan Robker

Husband. Father. 40+. PhD + Habil. Expat American. Biblical Scholar. Reader. Writer. Often a cook.
Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition
Apps, Biblical Studies, Software, Workflow

Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition

Publishing. It’s one of the most important parts of research in academia. Yet not many programs cater to the specific … Continue reading Nota Bene: Software for Academic Composition

The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator
Biblical Studies, DH in General, DH in Practice, Online Resources, Teaching, Textual Analysis

The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator

This post serves as a quick introduction to a tool I recently found via Twitter: The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator. … Continue reading The Biblical Hebrew Reader Generator

Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2
Biblical Studies, DH in Practice, Digitization, OCR, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis

Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2

The first part of this post covered starting a project with eScriptorium and properly segmenting a page to prepare it … Continue reading Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2

Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 1
Biblical Studies, DH in Practice, Digitization, OCR, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis

Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 1

Exegetes interested in textual criticism need ready access to digitized and digitalized versions of Hebrew manuscripts so that they must … Continue reading Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 1

Organizing Browser-heavy Workflows
DH in General, DH in Practice, Online Resources, Software, Workflow

Organizing Browser-heavy Workflows

Organizing browser items in a heavy online workflow can present challenges. Opening one tab inevitably leads to opening more tabs … Continue reading Organizing Browser-heavy Workflows

Easily Creating Synopses for Biblical Languages in Different Directions
Biblical Studies, DH in Practice, Digitization, Textual Analysis, Uncategorized, Visualization, Workflow

Easily Creating Synopses for Biblical Languages in Different Directions

Synopses represent an important and user-friendly tool for the comparison of versions of biblical texts. Whether for deepening one’s own … Continue reading Easily Creating Synopses for Biblical Languages in Different Directions

Classical Language Tools
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies, DH in Practice, Online Resources, Textual Analysis, Workflow

Classical Language Tools

Visitors to my personal blog know that I am currently wrestling with a particular Greek biblical tradition of the book … Continue reading Classical Language Tools

Introduction to the NTVMR
Biblical Studies, DH in General, DH in Practice, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Visualization, Workflow

Introduction to the NTVMR

Today’s contribution was written by Greg Paulson. Paulson is a research associate at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research … Continue reading Introduction to the NTVMR

Biblical Studies: Material Culture Online and in the Classroom
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies, DH in Practice, Online Resources, Teaching

Biblical Studies: Material Culture Online and in the Classroom

My recent posts have focused on the biblical text and ways to access it online. Here I will turn to … Continue reading Biblical Studies: Material Culture Online and in the Classroom

Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies, Teaching, Textual Analysis

Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues

Biblical work obviously primarily relies on working with “the text.” However, as anyone involved in biblical studies knows, there really … Continue reading Digitized Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts: Access and Issues

Posts navigation

Older posts
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
The Digital Orientalist
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • The Digital Orientalist
    • Join 247 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Digital Orientalist
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...