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In article <341C6F...@deathtospam.aracnet.com>,
Greg Hartman  <ghar...@deathtospam.aracnet.com> wrote:
>No argument there, although as someone else in this thread pointed out,
>the publication of these and other texts certainly means they've been
>"digitized"--an unneccesarily fancy way of saying they've been typed
>into a word processor and are stored on disk somewhere.

That is untrue. While I don't really care whether you like my choice of
words, the fact is that "digitize" does mean something quite specific
and necessary. The question is "Do we have a digital representation of
the manuscripts such that we could run the same tests used by the Codes
Quacks on other manuscripts?" The answer, as far as I understand it is,
'No'". The other types of texts are frequently representated as
*images*, sometimes "digitized" by the sort of technology which creates
a FAX, others are merely analog photographic images. In either case,
they are useless for the experiments required.

>In fact, some students in New York broke the Israelis' stranglehold on
>the Qumram scrolls several years ago by reconstructing them from an
>electronic database/lexicon/concordance, then publishing them over the
>Internet.

I believe the team came from Cincinnati, and they weren't just
"students". The guiding researcher was Ben Zion Wacholder, a faculty
member of the Hebrew Union College. As for the publication you are
discussing, it is merely an approximation as no one would disagree, so
I can't understand what your point is in this regard.

>I know of several other texts that can purchased separately--i.e., the
>Samaritan Pentateuch, the Textus Receptus, a conflation of Byzantine
>texts, etc.--which means each of these is also digitized.

I believe the Samaritan Torah is indeed in digital format. I have no
idea what you mean by "Textus Receptus" as there is no single document
which can bear that name. I repeat that there are no other *Masoretic*
manuscripts in digital format other than the one which formed the basis
for the text which is in general electronic distribution. Again, if
anyone has better data, I'd be happy to see it.

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Jack F. Love
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