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179 | www.limina-graz.eu Georg Vogeler | Religion aus Daten? | BIOGRAPHY Georg Vogeler ist Professor für Digital Humanities am Zentrum für Infor- mationsmodellierung der Universität Graz. Er studierte Historische Grund- wissenschaften in Freiburg und München und ist Gründungsmitglied des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. (http://www.i-d-e.de). | KEY WORDS Bibel; Digitale Edition; Digital Humanities; Koran; Scholarly Edition/Kri- tische Edition This article presents projects that apply current digital methods in the scientific preparation of primary texts of the three monotheistic religions based on scrip- ture: the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room at the Münsteraner Insti- tute for New Testament research, the digital preparation of the Hebrew Bible as part of the Westminster Leningrad Project, online resources for the Aleppo Codex and the Codex Sinaiticus, the digital documentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Quran websites altafsir.com and tanzil.net, the linguistically annotated Quran from the University of Leeds, as well as the Corpus Coranicum from the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. These represent the differ- ent approaches from collaborative critical research working towards a classical critical edition on the documentation of individual text media, and the prepara- tion of a linguistic corpus, to comprehensive annotation and analysis of the text. This article puts these concepts within the discourse on the question of digital editions within digital humanities and concludes that they “digitise” the texts in order to process the complexity of their tradition and the volume of content an- notations. The question arises as to what consequences this scientifically driven digitisation and thus the algorithmic process as a precondition for human un- derstanding have regarding the text function in theology and religious practices.