Thursday 9 October until Friday 10 October, 2025at 13:15 - 17:00
Lingvisten and Humlab
Workshop - Digital Methods in Identifying Bible Reuse
Umeå University, 9-10 October 2025
Program
Thursday October 9
Location: Lingvisten (Humanisthuset)
13:15-15:00 Terje Stordalen, University of Oslo Biblical Narrative in a Century of Newspapers: A Digitized Past Pointing to the Future? (Narrative digital methods 1) Part of the research seminar in Theology and Religious Studies
15:30-15:00 break Move location to Humlab
15:30-17:00 Samuel Bado Auler, Lund University (via zoom) Biblical Reception in the Age of AI: Using Large Language Models to Detect Scriptural References
Dinner
Friday October 10 Location: Humlab
10:15-12:00 Lars Johnsen, Norwegian National Library Analyzing Text Fragments with Language Models: Emitons as Micro Units of Text Analysis (Narrative digital methods 2)
12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00-14:00 Rebecka Weegar, Roger Mähler, Tomas Skotare, HumLab + Karin Neutel, Umeå University Challenges and Findings in Verbal Matching between Swedish Parliamentary and Biblical Texts
14:00-14:30 Johan Jarlbrink, Umeå University Text reuse in the Swedish-language press, 1645-1918
