Daniel Peterson wrote:Dr. Shades wrote:What is it?
Just from my own little academic neighborhood, I would say that our Dead Sea Scrolls database project, our searchable electronic edition of the Popul Vuh, our electronic publication of materials from the Vatican Apostolic Library, our documentary film about the ancient Arabian frankincense trail, our work recovering damaged papyrus texts from the ruins of Herculaneum, and other such projects are all pretty cutting edge and world class, as is Dan Graham's work on Aristotle and the Pre-Socratics. As is Bill Hamblin's work on ancient Near Eastern warfare. As is John Gee's work on ancient Egyptian hypocephali. So is my colleague Kirk Belnap's founding and direction of the National Middle East Languages Resource Center. So is my colleague Dana Bourgerie's founding and direction of the China Flagship Program. So is my colleague Dil Parkinson's work on Arabic lexicography.
And those are just a few items essentially from my academic backyard. There are plenty of others. I didn't mention, for example, the fact that Dana Pike, Andrew Skinner, David Seeley, and Donald Parry are active members of the international Dead Sea Scrolls editorial team.
If you want me to start listing things from other colleges and departments at BYU, though, you're going to have to pay me by the hour.
You forgot the upcoming study of Joseph Smith's wordprint by the MI. It was just an oversight, I'm sure.