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Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from the Kurdish city of Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Could AI solve the enigmas of ancient Talmud-like Christian manuscripts in Aramaic?
By Rossella Tercatin
An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial choices, similar to the redactors of Jewish Gemara
Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from the Kurdish city of Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
April 19, 2025, 9:00 am
Could AI solve the enigmas of ancient Talmud-like Christian manuscripts in Aramaic?
An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial choices, similar to the redactors of Jewish Gemara
By Rossella Tercatin
Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles during the ceremony of the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 15, 2017, during Orthodox Easter ceremonies. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
April 15, 2017, 7:27 pm
Orthodox Christians celebrate ‘Holy Fire’ in Jerusalem
Tens of thousands attend Easter ceremony in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where tradition holds Jesus was buried, resurrected
By AFP
Greek Orthodox Christian pilgrims walk by a sign warning of mines as they take part in a traditional Epiphany baptism ceremony, at Qasr el Yahud on January 18, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 16, 2016, 12:20 pm
Jesus’s baptismal site, long sealed off, to be cleared of landmines
Churches at Qasr al-Yahud have languished behind barbed wire for five decades; now a UK anti-mine group plans to rid area of 4,000 explosives, giving pilgrims access
By ToI Staff
A statue of Syriac Catholic Bishop Flavianus Michael Melki, martyred during the "Assyrian Genocide," is seen during his beatification at the Patriarchal convent of Our Lady of Deliverance in Harissa, Lebanon, north of Beirut, August 29, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/EZZAT ATTAR)
August 30, 2015, 2:45 pm
Syriac bishop beatified century after beheading
Flavien Michel Melki was executed in 1915 by Ottoman authorities for refusing to convert to Islam
By AFP
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