2 papers
cs.CL2026
MiqraBERT: Regression-Based Sentence-BERT Finetuning for Biblical Hebrew Parallel Detection
David M. Smiley
Textual reuse pervades the Hebrew Bible, yet the computational methods used to detect it still rest largely on lexical overlap, and they falter once a parallel involves paraphrase,…
cs.CL2025
Intertextual Parallel Detection in Biblical Hebrew: A Transformer-Based Benchmark
David M. Smiley
Identifying parallel passages in biblical Hebrew (BH) is central to biblical scholarship for understanding intertextual relationships. Traditional methods rely on manual comparison…