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> From: "James R. Adair"
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> One month ago TC published a review by Dave Washburn of Raija Sollamo's
> book _Repetition of the Possessive Pronouns in the Septuagint_. A week or
> two later, Prof. Sollamo sent a message to the list noting her
> appreciation for the review, but pointing out a misunderstanding of one of
> her conclusions. In a subsequent message to the list, Dave Washburn
> concurred that he had misstated Sollamo's point in his review. TC has now
> published Sollamo's response to the review, and links from the response to
> the review and vice versa have been inserted. See the table of contents
> for volume 1 of TC for Sollamo's comments.
>
> The ability to publish a correction to a TC article--and in only one
> month's time!--highlights an advantage that electronic publishing has over
> traditional paper publishing. In print, a correction would have taken
> several months (at least) to appear, and the link would only have been one
> way: from the reponse to the original article. There is no way to go back
> and change the original printed article to refer to the response.
> However, in an electronic environment this is not a problem. The fact
> that the original review was _published_ precludes us from going back and
> changing the text in question, since TC readers have to be able to assume
> that the texts they cite in other articles are permanent, but there is no
> problem with adding a link to the response, since this link is clearly not
> a part of the article per se.
>
> Our publishing of this response should not be seen as indicative of a
> weakness in electronic journals (how many responses to articles have
> appeared in print journals, and how many more really _should_ have
> appeared?) but rather as an example of the flexibility of online journals.
> Furthermore, I want to state my appreciation for Dave Washburn and all of
> our other volunteer book reviewers (many are currently working on reviews)
> for their hard work and for Leonard Greenspoon, our book review editor.
> Their efforts are making TC a valuable addition to the scholarly
> conversation about biblical textual criticism.
>
> Jimmy Adair
> General Editor of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
> ------> http://scholar.cc.emory.edu/scripts/TC/TC.html <-----
>
I can only second Jimmy's plea re the advantages of electronic publishing. It
simply advances critical discussion, the essence of scientific work, and
in a remarkable short period of time for that matter!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
JOHANN COOK
STELLENBOSCH
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