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SHEBANQ
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*System for HEBrew Text: ANnotations for Queries and Markup*

This is the code for [shebanq](http://shebanq.ancient-data.org): the first data service of *ancient-data.org*.

Shebanq is a search engine for the Hebrew Bible, powered by the ETCBC4 linguistic database, formerly know as WIVU.

The data is archived for *open access*, at
[DANS-EASY](http://www.persistent-identifier.nl/?identifier=urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-048i-71)

The
[history of the underlying idea](http://annotation-paradigm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/queries-as-annotations/history.html)
shows where this demonstrator fits in the enterprise of Bible and Computing.

Authors
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ETCBC
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[Eep Talstra Center for Bible and Computing](http://godgeleerdheid.vu.nl/etcbc)
* [Wido van Peursen](mailto:w.t.van.peursen@vu.nl)
* Eep Talstra
* Constantijn Sikkel
* [Oliver Glanz](mailto:glanz@andrews.edu) (now at [Andrews University](https://www.andrews.edu))
    
DANS
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[Data Archiving and Networked Services](http://www.dans.knaw.nl)
* [Dirk Roorda](mailto:dirk.roorda@dans.knaw.nl)
* Henk van den Berg
* Heleen van de Schraaf
    
Contact
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[shebanq@ancient-data.org](mailto:shebanq@ancient-data.org)

2014-2015: Continued development of SHEBANQ made possible by the ETCBC and [The Language Archive](http://tla.mpi.nl)

2013-2014: The SHEBANQ demonstrator and the data curation of the ETCBC4 data into LAF have been funded by [CLARIN-NL](http://www.clarin.nl)