Interview: Drew Longacre and the Genizah Psalms

THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: Q&A Wednesday: Drew Longacre and the Genizah Psalms.

Author:
Drew Longacre and Melonie Schmierer-Lee

Wed 11 Dec 2024

Drew, you visited Cambridge this summer to look at Genizah Psalms fragments – tell us about your project.

I came to examine a dissertation here, and then stayed for an extra week to work on Psalms manuscripts for a critical edition of the Hebrew text of the Psalms for the HBCE (Hebrew Bible: a Critical Edition) series. Brent Strawn and I have funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a three-year project to produce the printed edition, and it will be accompanied by a digital edition too.

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For more on the Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter Project, see here.

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