moksha wrote:$40,000 to keep that dig into the Cumorah hillside active seems like a bargain. Hope Dr. Peterson and the Interpreter is able to find the patrons to make this happen.
They'll find LDS patrons, but won't find any evidence.
moksha wrote:$40,000 to keep that dig into the Cumorah hillside active seems like a bargain. Hope Dr. Peterson and the Interpreter is able to find the patrons to make this happen.
Rollo Tomasi wrote:"[O]wing to unwelcome external circumstances"? Now that sounds interesting (and possibly even scandalous).
Dr. Shades wrote:Does anyone have any idea why Royal Skousen would need $40,000.00 for a year? I thought the project was done and therefore required no further money.
Assuming he gets the funding, what will he do over the next year, and will another donation be required next year, too, in an ongoing fashion?
(emphasis added)In October 2014, at his initiative and with his kind cooperation, Interpreter made the six massive books of Volume 4 of Royal Skousen’s magisterial Book of Mormon Critical Text Project easily accessible online, at no charge. (See http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/books/ ... of-mormon/ .) Crucially, too, we did it in a way that respects his copyright and intellectual property rights to the greatest extent possible. This represented an unparalleled opportunity for us; his project, perhaps the most impressive and sustained single scholarly effort of an individual Latter-day Saint since the original publication of the Book of Mormon, represents nearly thirty years of devoted, faithful, painstaking, and meticulous work.
It does seem to be some dispute over intellectual property rights. In this connection, I would also note that Skousen's publication of The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text with Yale University Press in 2009 seemed to make some people at BYU and in SLC unhappy.Zub Zool oan wrote:Didn't Skousen go outside of the Mormon publishing system? Maybe he's being punished. The church, one would think, would use the Joseph Smith Translation - I mean first hand, from the prophet of the restoration - but it is published by the other guys and the church doesn't receive royalties. It couldn't be that trite could it?
Tom wrote:I assume the funding is needed in connection with Volume 3 of the Critical Text Project, The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon...
Everybody Wang Chung wrote:Begging for donations is becoming a fairly common event for DCP.
Yahoo Bot wrote:Everybody Wang Chung wrote:Begging for donations is becoming a fairly common event for DCP.
I am a board member of a non-profit. Begging for donations constitutes about 90 percent of our existence.
Tom wrote:In a lengthy appeal for funding to keep the Interpreter Foundation afloat, Daniel Peterson indicates that, "owing to unwelcome external circumstances," Royal Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project "suddenly needs to find a new home." Skousen is now seeking $40,000 for a year to continue the project outside the auspices of the Maxwell Institute and has gone so far as to approach the Interpreter Foundation for help. (Peterson reports on Facebook that Skousen "wants nothing more to do with the Maxwell Institute.")