01-26-2008, 06:37 PM
Shlama all--
Mari/PEACE has just moved into one of its last phases. I have just corrected and edited the very last portions of the Appendices. These extra sections were either longer footnotes of mine that my editorial team put into essay form or else were topics they thought needed extra attention and added on their own, for my review and approval later. There are approximately 350 pages of these notes in all, comprising of about 200 pages in front of the translation and the remaining 150 in the back. The front pieces deal with general scholarship and Aramaic in an overall sense, whereas those topics in the back from a kind of Netzari Concordance of relevant faith headings. A new Preface has also just been written by me, and my footnotes to the translation are still happening. I think we have about 1350 footnotes now, and the vast majority of them are far more detailed than just citing a passage of Scripture in parallel.
So, for those of you who have been asking me, here is what is next. Once my final edits for the Appendices are processed by my team, I will then be sent the Master Copy of the whole megillot. This will be it folks. Once the last edits on the Master are done by me and my team, the text is finally locked, and it is off to the bindery. Final release is still on track for Pesach as far as I know, barring any printing delays that I cannot foresee now.
Mari/PEACE is coming my friends. Every day it draws closer to being a physical reality.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
Mari/PEACE has just moved into one of its last phases. I have just corrected and edited the very last portions of the Appendices. These extra sections were either longer footnotes of mine that my editorial team put into essay form or else were topics they thought needed extra attention and added on their own, for my review and approval later. There are approximately 350 pages of these notes in all, comprising of about 200 pages in front of the translation and the remaining 150 in the back. The front pieces deal with general scholarship and Aramaic in an overall sense, whereas those topics in the back from a kind of Netzari Concordance of relevant faith headings. A new Preface has also just been written by me, and my footnotes to the translation are still happening. I think we have about 1350 footnotes now, and the vast majority of them are far more detailed than just citing a passage of Scripture in parallel.
So, for those of you who have been asking me, here is what is next. Once my final edits for the Appendices are processed by my team, I will then be sent the Master Copy of the whole megillot. This will be it folks. Once the last edits on the Master are done by me and my team, the text is finally locked, and it is off to the bindery. Final release is still on track for Pesach as far as I know, barring any printing delays that I cannot foresee now.
Mari/PEACE is coming my friends. Every day it draws closer to being a physical reality.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth