Some great news (news to me, anyways) about BYU’s Professor Donald Parry and his great new opportunity, from Professor Jim Davila’s PaleoJudaica.com blog, no less:
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PROFESSOR DONALD W. PARRY has been named as one of about two dozen editors of Biblia Hebraica Quinta. He will be working on the book of Isaiah.
This article in TC gives background to Biblia Hebraica Quinta.
Congratulations to Dr. Parry! This new version of the Hebrew Bible will be a great contribution, as it will incorporate (or at least compare with) alternate versions of the text besides the Masoretic, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and other texts that don’t match up entirely with the later accepted versions. I’m sure it will take years to produce, but I will be excited to see it when its done!
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Dr. Parry was telling us about this in our Hebrew class. It’s too bad that Dead Sea Scroll variants won’t be incorporated right into the text. Dr. Parry told us that’s because it’s a “diplomatic” edition. Why do they do that with the Hebrew Bible but with the NT the Nestle-Aland committee hacks and splices the Textus Receptus wherever they want. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely think that’s the better way to do it, I just wonder why there’s no perceived need for a diplomatic edition of the NT text.
Also, where did that music widget go that was on your old site? What service was it and how do I get one?
Jon,
It’s nice to hear from someone taking a class from Dr. Parry. I’m sure you’re all excited about this great privilege they’ve given him — and he certainly deserves it. Everywhere I go I meet people that are aware of BYU’s work on the DSS, largely because of Dr. Parry (and there certainly are many more great scholars at BYU that have done so much with the scrolls). Although I unfortunately never had a class with Dr. Parry while I was at BYU, I am so proud to have a connection to that school and to be able to say that I graduated from there with a degree in Near Eastern Studies.
I totally know what you mean about the double standard for the Hebrew Bible and Greek NT. I guess the teams working on the two are just very different groups. While Christian (I’m assuming they are) scholars have more liberty to do as they please with the NT, they have to be more diplomatic with the OT as they are likely working in conjunction with Jewish scholars as well. That is probably a grossly simplistic commentary, but perhaps it has something to do with it.
The music widget? I never knew that anyone had ever noticed it. I replaced it with the Amazon.com one so that people could actually buy the music if they liked it. I’ll try to bring the old one back. I can’t remember now where I got it, but I’ll see if I saved it anywhere. If I put it back up, you can click on a button at the bottom and it will let you get your own. Sorry about taking it off!
David
Thanks, David. I had guessed the same thing. I think it says a lot about the difference between how Christians and Jews view the Biblical text.
I put up the old music player again! You can get your own by going clicking on the left-hand button “Create Your Free Playlist” or by going to http://www.playlist.com. The songs you can choose from are somewhat limited, but its pretty cool.