Project

The project stems from a twofold objective:

1. to help bring biblical studies back into the field of humanities computing, in which they played a leading role during the 1980s;
2. to establish a new paradigm connecting biblical research and patristic studies.

The initial inspiration came, on the one hand, from the text-reuse experiments of the past three decades, and on the other, from theoretical and literary studies on intertextuality. Our goal has been—and continues to be—to create a tool that, by combining the humanities and computer science, enables the reconstruction of the Church Fathers’ mental libraries and assists philological research in uncovering possible lost versions of the Scriptures of the Jewish and Christian traditions.