Reading the Unreadable: From the Damage of This World to the Virtual Unwrapping that is to Come
Thu, Apr 25
|McLean Presbyterian Church
You are invited to this amazing Faith & Work talk by Dr. Brent Seales about his groundbreaking work of using modern technology to digitally open and read other inaccessible ancient biblical scrolls. This event is sponsored by the Capital Fellows program.
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
McLean Presbyterian Church, 1020 Balls Hill Rd, McLean, VA 22101, USA
About the event
Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 7:00PM
McLean Presbyterian Church - Multipurpose Room
RSVP by April 20
The Capital Fellows invite you to join them for a fascinating talk on vocation, technology, and biblical archaeology.
Time and decay have made many ancient books and scrolls inaccessible to us today. If we tried to open them, they would crumble in our hands. And yet, we long to know what’s in them - especially if they are biblical texts. In the style of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", this talk tells the story of a project that became a quest and eventually turned into a pilgrimage. This work was conceived during the rise of digital libraries and large-scale computing, and has now been realized on some of the most difficult and iconic material in the world - the Herculaneum Scrolls - as a result of the recent phenomena of big data and machine learning. Although…