My digital future
This fall, as I have been trying to finish up my book project, Monks and Their Children, I have been asked more than once: What’s your next project? When I start describing copticscriptorium.org, I frequently get the reply: no, I mean your real project, your next book. My internal response was always twofold: the snarky, “What, bringing […] Read More
The so-called Rule of Pcol
The writings of Shenoute form the largest corpus of early monastic texts by a single author from one of the cradles of Christian monasticism, Egypt. These manuscripts open an important window onto the development of monasticism in Egypt, shedding light on the inner workings of an early monastery outside of the more famous Pachomian system. […] Read More
Rule fragment published in Le Muséon
The rule fragment I’ve been working on has now been published as an article in a traditional journal, Le Muséon. Photos of the manuscript, a transcription, translation, and analysis are there. Read More
Tagging Shenoute
By Caroline T. Schroeder & Amir Zeldes Schroeder presented this paper at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society in Chicago, Illinois, on May 24, 2014. This post is a very minimally edited version of the paper prepared for and delivered at the conference. Tagging Shenoute by Caroline T. Schroeder & Amir Zeldes […] Read More
New White Monastery Text Discovered!
Republished courtesy Orientalist Today Lost Egyptian Text found in Ohio Attic 1 April 2014, Orientalist Today Columbus natives Joe and Julia Needler were shocked to learn that the “souvenirs” they discovered a decade ago in their attic were actually Egyptian antiquities. Among the treasures was a fragment of a valuable — and potentially controversial — […] Read More
January 2014 Coptic SCRIPTORIUM release notes
We’ve released some additional TEI XML files for our SCRIPTORIUM corpora at http://coptic.pacific.edu (backup site http://www.carrieschroeder.com/scriptorium). All the TEI files have been lightly annotated with linguistic annotations. The metadata has been updated to provide more information about the repositories and manuscript fragments. There are now TEI downloads for every file in our public ANNIS database. […] Read More
SBL presentation on Digital Technologies to find and study biblical references in Coptic literature
The slides from my 2013 Society of Biblical Literature presentation are now available on Academia.edu and are referenced on Coptic SCRIPTORIUM’s Zotero Group Library page. Searching for Scripture: Digital Tools for Detecting and Studying the Re-use of Biblical Texts in Coptic Literature (Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes) Abstract Some of our most important biblical manuscripts […] Read More
Coptic Scriptorium Introductory Video Available
I’ve added a link to a video describing the Coptic Scriptorium project. Read More
SBL presentation on Digital Coptic Editions and the Coptic Scriptorium project
I’ll be presenting at the SBL annual meeting this afternoon on Coptic Manuscripts, Digital Editions, and Digital Scholarship (including the new Coptic Scriptorium project). The presentation is during the Saturday 1-3:30 pm session on Eastern Manuscripts in McCormick Place E264. Slides of the presentation are now available under the Pcol’s Rule tab. Read More
Digital Grantwriting in Week 1 of DigiWriMo
Since I’m starting a new, big digital project (Coptic SCRIPtorIuM), I spend a fair amount of time scaring up resources. The first week of November saw one internal funding proposal at Pacific for seed money (fingers crossed)! As the Director of the Humanities Center, I’m also trying to get together funding to attend the DHSI in […] Read More