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TC has been awarded an SBL
Technology Grant. Click here for details.
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism is an electronic
journal dedicated to the study of the Jewish and Christian biblical texts.
Articles on any aspect of the textual criticism of the Jewish and
Christian scriptures (including extracanonical and related literature) are
welcome, and contributions that transcend the traditional boundary between
textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament
textual criticism are especially encouraged. We would also like to see
articles that discuss the relationship between textual criticism and other
disciplines.
TC publishes standard scholarly articles (both full-length articles and shorter notes are equally welcome), project reports, and book reviews. In addition, as it develops, the TC home page will provide links to additional resources of interest to biblical textual critics, including text-critical projects, original language texts, interactive interfaces to provide information about sigla used in different editions, and links to other sites of interest. You can now read TC articles in the scripts of the original languages! Click here for more information. TC is a member of the Association of Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journals in Religion.
TC 1 (1996), TC 2 (1997), and TC 3 (1998) are now complete. The current issue is TC 4 (1999).
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TC articles are copyrighted and must be treated like any other published articles. They cannot be copied, duplicated, or reproduced by any means without prior written authorization from the General Editor. They may, of course, be cited for scholarly purposes according to the following format (for a footnote):
James R. Adair, Jr., "Old and New in Textual Criticism: Similarities, Differences, and Prospects for Cooperation," TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism [http://purl.org/TC] 1 (1996): pars. 3-5.
The portion of the citation inside the square brackets (i.e., the URL)
is optional, but, if included, should retain the square brackets. The
numeral that follows the URL is the volume number. A volume is defined as
all the articles that appear in a given calendar year. Thus, all articles
appearing in 1996 will be in volume 1 of TC. Note that the location
within an article is specified in terms of paragraphs (which are
numbered), not pages. Paragraphs of book reviews will also be numbered,
although most citations of reviews will not need to include paragraph
references.
Submissions to TC
All submissions of articles and project reports, as well as general inquiries, should be sent to the General Editor in electronic form (preferably Word, WordPerfect, ASCII, or SGML/TEILite format). Submissions may be sent directly to our FTP site, via e-mail to jadair@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu, or they may be mailed on diskette (DOS/Windows or Macintosh) to the following address:
James R. Adair TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism Scholars Press P.O. Box 15399 Atlanta, GA 30333-0399 USA
Paper copies of articles may also be submitted, providing that they accompany an electronic copy of the same article. Although the primary language of the journal is English, submissions in German, French, or Spanish are also welcome. Other languages will also be considered.
Book reviews should be submitted to Leonard Greenspoon, the TC book review editor. As with other articles, book reviews must be submitted electronically in an acceptable format. Books for review should be sent to the following address:
Leonard Greenspoon Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization Creighton University Omaha, NE 68178 USA
Everyone submitting an article should first read the TC Instructions for Contributors.
Encoding Non-Roman Characters
It is now possible to view non-Roman characters on the Web! For more information, see TC Note 2. The display of non-Roman characters is currently a solution only supported by Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, so several options remain for submitting articles to TC that contain non-Roman characters.
TC articles are abstracted in Religious and Theological Abstracts and in Elenchus Bibliographicus of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis.
The journal is archived as part of the Center for Research Libraries'
Electronic Journals Collection. The CRL is an academic consortium of
162 libraries in the United States and Canada.
Peer Review
All submissions are subject to a peer-review process by the TC Editorial Board.
In conjunction with TC, an electronic discussion list dealing with all aspects of biblical textual criticism, broadly defined, has been operational since November 1995. This list, called tc-list, currently has about 250 participants, and anyone interested can subscribe by sending an e-mail message to majordomo@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu, putting the command "subscribe tc-list <your e-mail address>" (of course without the quotation marks or angle brackets--the e-mail address is not necessary if you want to subscribe to your current account) in the body of your message. There is also a digest version of the list. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe tc-list-digest <your e-mail address>" to majordomo@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu. Again, don't include the angle brackets or the quotation marks, and the e-mail address at the end of the message is optional and unnecessary if you want to subscribe to the address from whch you are sending the message.
To send a message to everyone on the list, send it to tc-list@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu (even if you are subscribed to the digest version, you should send your messages to tc-list, not tc-list-digest). Posts to the list may deal with either textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament or New Testament textual criticism. Discussions of topics that span the canonical boundary are especially welcome, as are discussions of the relationship between textual criticism and other disciplines (literary criticism, theology, canon, ...). We look forward to many interesting discussions.
List archives are now available on the Web! The tc-list is being archived by both eGroups and Reference.COM, sites that archive many mailing lists and Usenet groups. You can search the tc-list archives on either site by keywords, authors of comments, date, and more. Currently, only messages since Feb. 28, 1997 are archived on Reference.COM; the entire tc-list archive from November 1995 is available on the eGroups site. The full archives are also available from our FTP site ( ftp://shemesh.scholar.emory.edu/pub/openhouse/tc-list), from which monthly archives may be downloaded and searched on your local computer.
The archives are also available by e-mail. Send the message "get
tc-list tc-list.yymm" to
majordomo@shemesh.scholar.emory.edu, where yymm is the year and month.
For example, to retrieve all the messages from February 1997, send the
message "get tc-list tc-list.9702." Do not include the quotation marks.
The Society of Biblical Literature has created a new book series,
Text-Critical Studies, devoted to the study of biblical textual criticism.
For a description of this series and information on submitting manuscript
proposals, see the TCS information page.
In addition to articles, short notes, and reviews, TC will also be the home
of various text-critical projects. The first of these, which is in its
initial stages, is the TC Bibliography
Project. All subscribers to the TC List are welcome to participate
and to suggest other projects.
Click here to see TC Links: Other Sites
Dealing with Textual Criticism
TC has been awarded a 1998 Society
of Biblical Literature Technology Grant. This grant will be used to
improve the TC Web site, especially the E-Canon, which
will be modified
so that it displays biblical texts in the original scripts. As these
improvements become available, more details will be given.
The idea to create an electronic journal of textual criticism was first
conceived in 1994, and my early inquiries regarding the possibility of
such a project were met (for the most part) with encouragement. I am
particularly grateful for the support of Harry Gilmer, director of
Scholars Press, and Kent Richards, executive director of the Society of
Biblical Literature. I received valuable advice from Charles Prebish,
editor of the electronic Journal of Buddhist Ethics.
When I first began recruiting editors, I received many gracious responses,
even from people who for one reason or another were unable to participate
personally. Bart Ehrman and Johann Cook were particularly helpful in
identifying for me the names and e-mail addresses of potential editors.
As the project progressed, Leonard Greenspoon volunteered to be the book
review editor, relieving me of the additional work involved in that task.
Finally, in addition to the advice and help rendered by my technical
editors Patrick Durusau and Tim Finney, John Wagner, a programmer at
Scholars Press, has also provided valuable technical assistance to the
project.
Text-Critical Studies
TC Projects
TC Links
SBL Technology Grant
Acknowledgements
James R. Adair, Jr.
General Editor