CEHP Restart

Great news on the grant front! Brent's and my NEH grant to produce a critical edition of the Hebrew Psalms 1-50 has been reinstated, and we are back at work trying to make it happen on a short timeline. For more details, see the blog post on the website.

The Book of the Tales of Canterbury: A Critical Edition

Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo announced the publication of their digital critical edition of some of Chaucer's (apparently wrongly named) Canterbury Tales. While the relevance for OTTC might not be obvious, a quick look at their edition might help give a little bit of vision of what an excellent digital edition of the Hebrew Bible text could look like in the 21st century. Robinson and Bordalejo have been at the forefront of developing tools and standards in the field, and they have been working on Canterbury Tales for many years. Their tools are in many ways similar to and in fact developed in relation to the Virtual Manuscript Room with which we are working to produce the Digital Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter. Congratulations to the editors for this great accomplishment, and I hope that scholars in our field will also catch the vision of what could be.

CEHP Transcription Update

I just posted an update on the transcription progress for the Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter (CEHP) project on the project blog. If you're interested in learning more about the project or getting involved, do check it out and fill out our Google form to register your interest. We are going to be working mostly with manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah and early Greek papyri, which is a great opportunity to learn more about working with manuscripts and textual criticism. 

CEHP Updates Blog

In case you haven't seen it yet, we have started posting updates about our progress on the Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter website blog. Not only will this be the first digital and eclectic critical edition of the Hebrew Psalms, but we are also piloting a crowdsourcing campaign that is yielding wonderful results.