Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Midrash collections are complex rabbinic works that consist of text in multiple languages, which evolved through long processes of unstable oral and written transmission.Determining the origin of a given passage in such a compilation is not always straightforward and is often a matter of dispute among scholars, yet it is essential for scholars' understanding of the passage and its relationship to other texts in the rabbinic corpus.To help solve this problem, we propose a system for classification of rabbinic literature based on its style, leveraging recently released pretrained Transformer models for Hebrew.Additionally, we demonstrate how our method can be applied to uncover lost material from Midrash Tanh .uma.
Authors: Solomon Tannor, Nachum Dershowitz, Moshe Lavee
Institutions: Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4404784115