On Thursday 17 March 2005 00:27, S�ren Holst wrote: > > The DSSR has the > > > > > texts organized by genre rather than Q sigla (as DJD itself), so when I > > > want 4Q365a I may have to do a bit of rummaging about to discover on > > > precisely what page of what volume it occurs. An index for that would > > > have been great. I hear Parry & Tov are working on a revised one- or > > > two volume version - they may have supplied an index when that comes > > > out. > > > > Doesn't Garcia-Martinez' study edition have them arranged in numerical > > order? > > Absolutely. That's one of the few points where it may have an advantage > over DSSR. On the other hand there may be numerous advantages (e.g. when > teaching) to having all texts of a specific class in the same place. The > last volume of DSSR has an index that tells you in what volume to find a > given Q number - but not on what page, so after that you have to go browse > through the contents page of that volume. Still it's a wonderful edition, > and my bickering is quite unfair :-)
It sounds as though someone started work on the index but never finished it?? and somehow it went to press anyway. At least I would hope that was the case. If someone actually conceived and planned this index to be that way, that person needs to go stand in a corner for an hour! Even so, the edition does sound useful. The biggest obstacle for me is the price, a typical problem I have with books from Brill. Since I don't have an institution to back me, book funds come out of my own meager resources. So it will likely be a LONG time before I can get my hands on these...... -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur "No good. Hit on head." -Gronk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
