DrW wrote:...
Thanks. But your response leaves me a bit confused.
As you know, "accepted for publication" normally means that a manuscript has been submitted, peer reviewed and approved for publication by the journal editor (often pending a few minor fixes by the author(s)).
At this point, the editor often schedules the paper for an upcoming issue and advises the author(s) to return the ms with edits (or sometimes even marked up galleys) by a certain date if they wish to make it into that issue.
In Episode 2, it states that the 2010 work I referred to by Jockers had been accepted for publication and would appear in 2012. I assume that if they had an accepted ms with a 2012 publication date, they were at least this far along in the process.
You'd have to contact either Jockers or Criddle about that item.
My understanding is that a paper on the Doctrine & Covenants
texts, compared to the writings of various early Mormons, was
under preparation, but has yet to be published. That's all I know.
Beyond that D&C textual analysis, I know of no other paper on
this topic currently under review anywhere.
Is that now not the case?
Has the paper appeared in print already?
If not, has Jockers lost interest in the subject area to the point that he will not even go to the trouble of doing the revisions on an accepted ms? (Hard to imagine for an active academic.)
What am I missing here?
If the D&C (Book of Commandments, actually) paper has been published,
I have not seen it.
All I have is anecdotal information, which may or may not be correct.
A certain message board poster obtained and divulged the contents
of private e-mails composed by Jockers, which drew the ire of a
certain LDS academic. I think at that point Jockers decided to let
others carry on the textual analysis work and relieve himself of the
proffered professional label of "vicious anti-Mormon," etc.
As I mentioned, he has been teaching classes in computerized textual
analysis methodology for authorship determination in California. As far
as I can understand, THAT is the way in which he is most comfortable
in discovering/communicating new studies information, revisions, etc.
I would not be surprised to see one of his students publish a paper
on Book of Mormon authorship in the future, and perhaps thus offer
some additional data which is not yet in print.
I wish I knew more -- but I've purposely maintained a certain amount
of "distance" from the Jockers-Criddle textual studies. I am interested,
but hope to preserve enough objectivity that I can offer meaningful
criticism at some future point.
UD
