Natural language processing (NLP) went through a profound transformation in the mid-1980s when it shifted to make heavy use of corpora and data-driven techniques to analyze language.  Meer

Shaye J.D. Cohen presents thirty essays and shows the connectedness of ancient Judaism with its ambient cultures. Even when the Jews of antiquity were at their most particularistic, they nevertheless were part of the ancient world, and their texts illuminate, and are illuminated by, the texts of their pagan and Christian neighbours.  Meer