@inproceedings{baitner-etal-2025-development,
    title = "The Development of {H}ebrew in Antiquity {--} A Computational Linguistic Study",
    author = "Baitner, Hallel  and
      Duchovny, Dimid  and
      Gottlieb, Lee-Ad  and
      Yorav, Amir  and
      Dershowitz, Nachum  and
      Ratzon, Eshbal",
    editor = "Anderson, Adam  and
      Gordin, Shai  and
      Li, Bin  and
      Liu, Yudong  and
      Passarotti, Marco C.  and
      Sprugnoli, Rachele",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "The Albuquerque Convention Center, Laguna",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.alp-1.7/",
    pages = "53--58",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-235-0",
    abstract = "The linguistic nature of Qumran Hebrew (QH) remains a central debate in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). Although some schol-ars view QH as an artificial imitation of Biblical Hebrew (BH), others argue that it represents a spoken dialect of ancient Judea. The present study employs computational lin-guistic techniques, clustering, classification, and machine learning, to analyze the relation-ship of QH with Biblical and Mishnaic He-brew. Preliminary findings confirm existing scholarly conclusions regarding the linguistic affinity of certain texts. This demonstrates that our methodology has a fundamental capacity to identify linguistic relationships. They also contribute new leads, on which we are now working to refine and enhance our analytical methods so as to provide founded insights into the historical development of Hebrew and the process of DSS textual composition."
}