Marinus Kornelis Klooster

Westminster Theological Seminary · Systematic Theology

This thesis explores the possibility of artificial creativity from a theological perspective. It aims to answer the question: To what extent does the possibility of machines becoming truly creative challenge the theological notion of human distinctiveness? Before this question is answered, the concept of creativity is investigated closely to arrive...

The ETCBC (Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer) manages an annotated database of, among other texts, the Hebrew Bible (version BHSA). The text has been annotated morphologically by hand and is freely accessible online. In this paper, I describe how I used this database to automatically predict phrase boundaries in the ETCBC's unannotated data...

This thesis provides an overview of the literary characteristics of the Book of Jonah and discusses the literary categories that scholars have associated with it, namely historical, imaginative, or humorous literature. After a hermeneutical discussion of multiple genres within these literary categories that have been used to describe the Book of Jo...