This has been in CP for some time, can we move it into production?
https://www.logos.com/product/16534/dictionary-of-the-targumim-the-talmud-babli-and-yerushalmi-and-the-midrashic-literature
Please?
(My work to push it through.- http://community.logos.com/forums/t/71959.aspx )
This is an important resource for doing serious study, and at $20 its a steal..
I moved my bid from twenty to thirty dollars. If everyone who bid twenty or lower did this, it could move much faster.
I just raised my bid too.
This has been in CP for some time, can we move it into production? https://www.logos.com/product/16534/dictionary-of-the-targumim-the-talmud-babli-and-yerushalmi-and-the-midrashic-literature
Since it isn't a work of systematic theology or an antiquated commentary, the chances aren't that good. [:(]
Interesting observation.
Call me cynical if you like, but most Logos users aren't really interested in studying scripture. What interests them is theological systems.
OK. I'd like to call you cynical.
A careful perusal of human religious behavior would detect a large number of folks slicing and dicing without any particular need for something substantial. That is what religion is for.
I'm presently digging my way through Smith's Origins of Biblical Monotheism. It's amazing about all the gods and a whole industry describing their lives, etc. All with no hint of them actually existing.
OK. I'd like to call you cynical. A careful perusal of human religious behavior would detect a large number of folks slicing and dicing without any particular need for something substantial. That is what religion is for.
To "slice and dice"?
Is slicing and dicing a cooking phrase?
That depends upon whether you're from Ginsu or your name is Mohammed (something or other). [:P]
This has been up for a while, and has a limited audience. I would think, though, that it would be of great value to the audience that's interested -- it's difficult to use in print!
Based on our CP history, I think it's going to need higher bids to get moving -- $30 or $40.
How about featuring it in a blog this week, and explaining the advantages of it.
This has been up for a while, and has a limited audience. I would think, though, that it would be of great value to the audience that's interested -- it's difficult to use in print! Based on our CP history, I think it's going to need higher bids to get moving -- $30 or $40.
Bob might well be correct here. Jastrow is on p 1 of the best-selling (15/pg), but way down the list on progress.
I have upped my bid. Again.
And I agree with George. It's odd to see how fast the (insert dead obscure preacher here) collection hits production virtually overnight, but a basic tool of Jesus' native language (!) languishes for months and months.
Edit to add: I note that it seems to have crept from about 55 to maybe 62 percent in the last month or two that these posts have gone up.
Good idea. [Y]
I also would like this...
Bump.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature
If the rest of the people who bid 20.00 were to bid 30.00, we could get this into production.
Time to remind anyone new to the forums (or current forumites as the case may be).
'Jastrow'.
'Yes, I use Jastrow regularly.'
'Well, luckily I had Jastrow. Recent publications are making much of Mishnah descriptions of the Temple in the 1st century.'
Actually, that last pseudo-quote is true. The Mishnah seems to be moving backward in time. Moonwalking in reverse. The Charlesworth volume on the Temple treats sections of the Mishnah as pre-Herod. Or Herod that shouldn't have happened. I've seen others where major sections of the Mishnah are re-dating backwards. Pretty soon it'd be older than ... (hmm).
'Jastrow' is a classic that belongs in your library. He was a jewish rabbi living in Poland. I'd assume (but don't know) Jastrow would be a core volume in a jewish package. But certainly if you're trying to get more that approximates the 1st century. That'd be 'Jesus'!
30,000 entries. It took 20 years to research/write.
I just raised my bid.
By the way here is the link to make it easier for others to join the party [<:o)]- https://www.logos.com/product/16534/dictionary-of-the-targumim-the-talmud-babli-and-yerushalmi-and-the-midrashic-literature
If everyone raised it to $25 it would be nearly over.
Has no one noticed that the Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature is finally over the top? I think we all deserve a [^] (or perhaps we should wait with that until it actually ships).
And the Early Bible Translations Collection (15 vols.) has passed 80%!
Yeah and I noticed it went over for $20 not $30 or $40 like Bob suggested.
Probably they've been working on it for the last 4 years (when it went first on CP?). Maybe just some finishing touches (adding dashes in to look like Harpers).
Or on the other hand, typing in 30,000 entries. Now, if you did 82 entries per day (including random incorrect tagging which takes longer), then maybe next year.
I'll vote for 'it's almost ready'. Dream candidate.
If he is going to be wrong this is a good direction to make the mistake.
