New METI Book

[_Daniel Peterson]

I'm pleased to announce that the latest volume has arrived from BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and specifically from our series of the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides (the greatest rabbi and Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages):

Moses Maimonides, On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs, a parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos (University of Cologne, Germany), with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Dr. Bos and of medieval Latin translations by Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).



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[_harmony]

How much does it cost and who would buy it?

Just wondering. I sprang for the hardback of the latest Janet Evanovich, so I'm tapped out of a book budget for a while.

[_Gadianton]

classic tier 1 apologetics.

[_Mercury]

Who chose the subject of the translation?

Saying this is an obscure piece would be taking the easy road at the ever too easy lampooning of DCP.

[_harmony]

classic tier 1 apologetics.

So does that mean it's only purchased by university libraries and assorted like-minded individuals?

No wonder LDS apologists say they don't make any money on their apologetics.

[_maklelan]

classic tier 1 apologetics.

Mormons had nothing to do with the vast majority of this translation, and it hardly intersects with any uniquely LDS interests. BYU is primarily a facilitator for this project. The translations are executed by outside scholars, and the funds are largely from government grants. I don't see how this at all relate to apologetics, unless one means to assert that any scholarship produced in any capacity by those on the membership records of the church is meant to further the reputation of Latter-day Saints in general, and so qualifies as "apologetics," which I find quite silly. Can you explain how this publication qualifies somehow as "apologetics"?

[_moksha]

classic tier 1 apologetics.

Medical historians.

[_JohnStuartMill]

maklelan:

So what you're saying is, this thread is wildly off-topic?

[_maklelan]

maklelan:

So what you're saying is, this thread is wildly off-topic?

Not at all. I believe this translation series falls well within the scope of "Mormon Discussions," but I disagree that as such it is inseparable from "apologetics." I believe to call it such is reductive, myopic, and terribly uninformed.

[_Gadianton]

mak, i started a new thread. i hope it answers your questions here.