{"id":3983,"date":"2010-03-21T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2010-03-21T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T23:34:07","slug":"long-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/long-overdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post I put up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NjAxMGY1MjU0YzA5Mzk2NjcwOTM2Y2RjMTBjYmNiNmQ=\" target=\"_blank\">Corner<\/a> the other day, but which I thought could be of interest here too\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyblack.co.uk\/2010\/03\/13\/german-researchers-preparing-quran-the-critical-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Black:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A team of researchers at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is preparing to bring out the first installment of Corpus Coranicum \u2013 which purports to be nothing less than the first critically evaluated text of the Qur\u2019an ever to be produced. What this means is that the research team is in the process of analysing and transcribing some 12,000 slides of Qur\u2019an mansucripts from the first six centuries of the text\u2019s existence. Once that is complete, the way is open to producing a text that annotates and, presumably, provides some sort of exegesis on the differences found in the early manuscripts. The impact of such a project can hardly be overestimated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is indeed an interesting development. So far as I am aware, the Koran has never been subjected to the sort of in-depth critical\/historical analysis which the Bible has undergone since the 19th century. It&#8217;s important not just because of what may be discovered, but because of the principle that such work establishes: A holy text ought to be judged on more than its own terms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/03\/assorted-links-16.html\" target=\"_blank\">H\/t: Tyler Cowen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post I put up on the Corner the other day, but which I thought could be of interest here too\u2026 Via Jeff Black: A team of researchers at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is preparing to bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/long-overdue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[50,499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}