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Two quick notes:<\/p>\n

Non-LDS scholar Peter Flint<\/a> gave a lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls the other day at BYU. You can watch it or listen to the audio at Aquinas\u2019 blog<\/a>. (Hat tip to, uh, Aquinas<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

And Logos is doing it to me again. They\u2019ve got two new databases, wheat amongst the chaff<\/a> on the prepublication list<\/a>, which means a reduced price is available before Logos finishes building the databases. (This link<\/a> explains how the prepublication process works.)<\/p>\n

The first database<\/a> is a morphologically-tagged text of the Biblical Dead Sea Scroll texts. The sectarian texts have been around for a while in multiple electronic formats, but not the Biblical texts, which are useful for textual criticism, among other things<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second database consists of the 16 volume Writings of the Ancient World series by the Society of Biblical Literature, whose conference rapidly approaches<\/a>. (BYU has given money to some promising undergrads<\/a> to attend this year.) This is a very good series of books, with different genres (legal texts, epistolary texts, ritual texts, etc.) and different groups (Ugaritic, Hittite, Mesopotamian, etc.) represented. I\u2019ve used a few for classwork and research.<\/p>\n

While they\u2019re in prepublication status, the DSS go for $79, and the SBL volumes for $306. Clearly, I need more funding \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"