On Friday 08 August 2003 07:12, Jim West wrote:
> I agree with Dave, there are things out there.  Yet, and I think this needs
> to be said, the things out there, like Accordance, cost lots of money.

Very true.  The Accordance people sent me a copy to review, but it's only for 
Macintosh and I don't have one...

> Sometimes those people interested in studying the DSS dont have access to a
> research library and they dont have a lot of disposable income to buy books
> like the martinez edition.  Hence, it seems to me that an online English
> translation of all the sectarian texts is a worthwhile project.

Agreed, now that you put it that way.  I wouldn't have the Martinez edition if 
a kind friend hadn't sent it to me :-)

> The marvel of the internet is that it makes accessible to remote places
> those things that are culturally important.  The Scrolls meet this criteria
> of importance and hence require wide availability.

Too true.  I stand corrected.

-- 
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"God does a lot of things in the Psalms
that He can't get away with in systematic theology."
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