Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

9/1/1978 - 2/28/1980

Funding Totals

$43,163.81 (approved)
$43,163.81 (awarded)


Structures in Biblican Hebrew

FAIN: RO-*1495-78

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Paul D. Hanson (Project Director: May 1978 to October 1990)

To develop methods for using computers to identify clusters of semantically related words in biblical Hebrew, and to display the distribution of these words and other features throughout a book in a way that will be helpful in discovering the structure of that book; and to apply the results to the study of Ezekiel and Zechariah by addressing the questions of literary analysis of sources and redactional history, and surface structure of the documents in their present form.