New DVD from Religious Studies Center and Maxwell Institute

[_Yoda]

A computer program can be housed on a DVD rather than a CD if there is too much information for a CD to contain it. That appears to be the case with this project. It is both a DVD AND a computer program. It's just that most of us think of movies when we think of DVD's.

[_Daniel Peterson]

There's no need for hostility

LOL. That's rich, coming from the author of the sentiments quoted in my signature below. (A tiny but representative sample from your malevolent five-year crusade.)

[_Buffalo]

There's no need for hostility

LOL. That's rich, coming from the author of the sentiments quoted in my signature below. (A tiny but representative sample from your malevolent five-year crusade.)

Call him a malevolent stalker again. It will help you blow off steam.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Call him a malevolent stalker again. It will help you blow off steam.

He's a malevolent stalker. . . .

Nope. No steam. Sorry.

[_Buffalo]

Call him a malevolent stalker again. It will help you blow off steam.

He's a malevolent stalker. . . .

Nope. No steam. Sorry.

Hmm, in that case I suggest one of these:

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/e5 ... AOVaEg.jpg

[_Daniel Peterson]

In the same helpful spirit, I recommend a sling for your broken arm, and a prolonged period of bed rest for your mononucleosis.

[_Mortal Man]

I think it's reasonably well accepted in the Church these days, and has been for quite a while now.

Except among your colleagues:

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/542 ... 1209004408

At the same time, midrash, targums, and peshers expand the Scriptural text with commentary or explanatory glosses. Some scholars see the so-called "JST" as heavily midrashic, and, as a long term project of both Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon, the results could be placed under a variety of rubrics, from "revelation" to simple "improvements" in text. Since it is not canonical, it need not concern us.

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/542 ... 1209005221
http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/542 ... 1209006741

This suggests to me quite strongly that Joseph was taking his cues from the Book of Mormon and that the JST for that section includes these expansions that simply were not in the original text of Isaiah. I don't know how Joseph Smith himself understood these additions to the JST - he may have understood them (incorrectly) as belonging originally to Isaiah, or he may have understood them as coming from Nephi, but having explanatory value.
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There is a growing recognition that the JST is not a restoration per se, but more of an interpretive commentary

[_Daniel Peterson]

I think it's reasonably well accepted in the Church these days, and has been for quite a while now.

Except among your colleagues:

My views don't necessarily differ much from those you cite.

I simply mean that there isn't, any longer, a reflex reaction in the Utah Church to reject the JST in toto because it comes to us through the Reorganized Church.

[_Kishkumen]

I think it is pretty disappointing to see the JST treated as second class scripture.

[_RockSlider]

I'm sure you can understand my confusion. (There's no need for hostility, Dr. Peterson.) First you said it was a "DVD," then you said it was a "computer disk," and now you're saying something else. Well, what is it? Are you so out of the loop at the Maxwell Institute that you don't know? Or has this project been changing so frequently that it's been very difficult to know *at all* what it's status is/was?

Geeze Scratch, your lack of understanding of computer media is showing!

Little history for you:

8" floppies - 175 kb capacity (1024 * 175 bytes)
5 1/2" floppies - maxed at 1200kb
3 1/2 floppies - maxed at 1.44mb (1024 * 1024 * 1.44)
Then a big jump
CD - 900 mb (0.9 gig)
And then yet, again a significant jump
DVD - 4.7 g (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 4.7) for single sided single layer (common general use)
up to a wooping 17.08g for double sided double layer.

DVD's are commonly used today for pure data containment of items with multi-gigabyte sizes. Video distribution is only one of these. In the case of Dr. P's notice ... if these are indeed distributed on DVD (verses CD) it is because the entire volume of the work exceeded 0.9 gig (which by itself is a very large volume of data). Modern day software deployments, like Linux or Oracle for example will not fit on one CD and deploy on DVD's all the time.

To give you an idea of scale, those 3.5" floppies you had on you computer just a few short years back - it would take 3394 of those to contain the same data as on one of the common 4.7g DVD's

If your as old as me, and had actually owned one of those old "washing machine" 8" floppies, it would take 28161 of those to contain the same amount of data as one 4.7g DVD.