Scholars seek to correct 'mistakes' in Bible

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interesting “Bible Project”:
…Scholars in this out-of-the-way corner of the Hebrew University campus have been quietly at work for 53 years on one of the most ambitious projects attempted in biblical studies — publishing the authoritative edition of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, and tracking every single evolution of the text over centuries and millennia…
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But the ongoing work of the academic detectives of the Bible Project, as their undertaking is known, shows that this text at the root of Judaism, Christianity and Islam was somewhat fluid for long periods of its history, and that its transmission through the ages was messier and more human than most of us imagine…
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But Segal and his colleagues toil in relative anonymity. Their undertaking is nearly unknown outside a circle of Bible experts numbering several hundred people at most, and a visitor asking directions to the Bible Project’s office on the university campus will find that many members of the university’s own staff have never heard of it.
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This is an endeavor so meticulous, its pace so disconnected from that of the world outside, that in more than five decades of work the scholars have published a grand total of three of the Hebrew Bible’s 24 books. (Christians count the same books differently, for a total of 39.) A fourth is due out during the upcoming academic year.
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If the pace is maintained, the final product will be complete a little over 200 years from now. This is both a point of pride and a matter of some mild self-deprecation around the office…
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read more at today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117239/ns/today-today_news/t/scholars-seek-correct-mistakes-bible/
 
This is about the pace that Ignatius Press is working on it’s Old Testament portion of the ‘Ignatius Catholic Study Bible’, just kidding Ignatius. 😉
 
Hope the results of their efforts are more reliable than those of the (thoroughly discredited) “Jesus Seminar!” :eek:
 
So it’s basically a REAL critical text edition of the OT instead of just being the Masoretic text that most translations of the Bible have to eclectically figure out on their own as they go through the readings and such? BRING IT ON! (as long as they’re actually using the Septuagint along with other versions).
 
antonivs said:
interesting “Bible Project”:

read more at today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117239/ns/today-today_news/t/scholars-seek-correct-mistakes-bible/
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This sounds like a monumental enterprise, and a most worthy one, tracing and critically evaluating the evolution and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible: Septuagint, Masoretic Text, and possibly other variants. It might shed some much-needed light, and perhaps reduce some heat, on several important issues. But two hundred years till completion? Luckily, I’m very patient and can wait.
 
meltzerboy said:
This sounds like a monumental enterprise, and a most worthy one, tracing and critically evaluating the evolution and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible: Septuagint, Masoretic Text, and possibly other variants. It might shed some much-needed light, and perhaps reduce some heat, on several important issues. But two hundred years till completion? Luckily, I’m very patient and can wait.
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Very droll!😃 Can you imagine how expensive each volume must be?:eek: What a gift for us all!!
 
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