What we offer

Two Pillars of Academic Excellence

Digital Jericho operates through two interconnected pillars, both dedicated to advancing scholarship at the intersection of theology and digital humanities.

The Digital Jericho Journal (DJJ)

A Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Periodical

The Digital Jericho Journal is an online, open-access academic publication dedicated to research in Digital Humanities with a focus on Theology. Published quarterly, the journal serves as a platform for rigorous scholarly discourse on the digital transformation of theological studies.

Scope and Mission:

  • Digital methods in biblical and patristic textual analysis
  • Digital ecclesiology and theological ethics in technological contexts
  • Manuscript digitization, paleography, and codicology
  • Digital exegesis, hermeneutics, and reception history
  • AI, transhumanism, and theological anthropology
  • Computational approaches to religious texts and traditions

Academic Standards:

  • Double-blind peer review ensuring the highest scholarly integrity
  • ISSN registration for international academic recognition
  • Indexed in Google Scholar, Academia.edu, and Web of Science
  • Turabian citation style as standard
  • Open access to ensure knowledge reaches all corners of the academic world

Editorial Governance:

The journal is guided by an Editorial Board comprising scholars in theology, computer science, and digital humanities. Our Advisory Board includes internationally recognized academics from institutions including UC Berkeley, Uppsala University, Sankt Ignatios Theological Institute, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Every submission undergoes rigorous peer assessment according to internationally recognized standards of academic publishing ethics.

Call for Papers:

We actively reach out to theology departments and digital humanities programs across Africa, Europe, and beyond. The journal welcomes contributions from established scholars and emerging voices alike.

The Digital Jericho Academy (DJA)

Master's Program in Digital Humanities with Focus on Theology

The Digital Jericho Academy offers a comprehensive 60 ECTS Master's-level program delivered entirely online, with one compulsory on-campus week for intensive study and academic community building.

Program Structure

The program is organized across three terms of coursework (45 ECTS) and one thesis term (15 ECTS):

Term One: Foundations

Module 1: Digital Methods for Theological Textual Analysis (5 ECTS)
Text encoding, stylometry, and corpus analysis applied to biblical and patristic texts. Students learn XML/TEI encoding, stylometric analysis of Pauline epistles, and computational linguistics in biblical studies.

Module 2: Reading and Deciphering Ancient Manuscripts (5 ECTS)
Paleography, codicology, and digital manuscript tools. Covering Greek and Syriac paleography, virtual unwrapping of palimpsests, and manuscript digitization with metadata tagging.

Module 3: Ecclesiology and Digital Ethics (5 ECTS)
How digital culture reshapes ecclesial life, authority, and ethics. Topics include digital ecclesiology, surveillance capitalism and religious freedom, and digital pastoral care.

Term Two: Application

Module 4: Digital Exegesis and Hermeneutics (5 ECTS)
Digital tools in scriptural interpretation, including mapping biblical geography digitally, semantic annotation of theological concepts, and reception history through social media traces.

Module 5: Digital Bibliographical Research & Archival Practices (5 ECTS)
Cataloguing, digital libraries, Zotero/Mendeley, and theological archives. Focus on religious data repositories, linked open data in theological studies, and integration with patristic corpora.

Module 6: Research Seminar: Theology and Digital Culture (5 ECTS)
Seminar format with guest speakers and case study presentations. Assessment includes a digital project proposal for the thesis term.

Term Three: Critical Engagement

Module 7: Transhumanism, AI, and the Imago Dei (5 ECTS)
Theological anthropology, eschatology, and AI consciousness. Exploring technological enhancement and human dignity, the image of God in post-human theory, and patristic anthropology versus contemporary transhumanism.

Module 8: Digital Academic Writing and Research Dissemination (5 ECTS)
Writing theological papers with digital tools including Zotero, Overleaf (LaTeX), Markdown for theological publishing, and e-publishing strategies.

Module 9: Project Lab ? Digital Theology in Practice (5 ECTS)
Collaborative digital project involving coding, curation, or interactive theology. Examples include building biblical concordances using Python, creating digitized annotated lives of saints, or designing theological chatbots.

Term Four: Original Research

Module 10: Master's Thesis (15 ECTS)
A major research project incorporating digital methodology or producing digital output. Examples include digital exegesis, ethical-theological critiques of virtual sacraments, or digital editions of patristic texts.

How It Works

Partnership Model:

Digital Jericho provides the curriculum, instruction, and academic mentorship. Degrees are conferred by partnering African universities, ensuring institutional legitimacy and recognition within existing academic frameworks.

Who Can Participate:

The program is offered free of charge to students enrolled through accredited African theological institutions with formal partnership agreements with Digital Jericho.

Learning Format:

  • Online delivery with asynchronous and synchronous components
  • One compulsory on-campus week attended by at least two members of the teaching faculty
  • Interactive seminars, collaborative projects, and individual mentorship
  • Access to digital libraries, research tools, and academic networks

Faculty:

Our teaching faculty comprises scholars with advanced degrees and active research profiles in theology, biblical studies, digital humanities, and computer science. All instruction is offered as voluntary scholarly diakonia.

Academic Affiliation

Students and faculty associated with Digital Jericho may list "Digital Jericho Society" or "Digital Jericho Academy" among their academic affiliations in publications, conference presentations, and professional profiles.

Publications in the Digital Jericho Journal carry full academic weight and contribute to scholarly impact metrics.

Building Bridges Through Knowledge

Both the Journal and the Academy serve a single purpose: to create pathways for rigorous, innovative scholarship that bridges continents, confessions, and disciplines. We offer not charity, but partnership. Not aid, but solidarity. Not dependence, but empowerment.

This is scholarship as diakonia. This is knowledge in service of justice.

Ready to engage with Digital Jericho?

  • For potential university partners: Contact us to explore collaboration
  • For prospective authors: Submit your research to the Digital Jericho Journal
  • For supporters: Join the Friends of Digital Jericho
  • For students: Inquire through your institution about enrollment opportunities