The new issue of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research arrived today. It contains a review by Jacob Lauinger of the revised edition of Cuneiform in Canaan. Lauinger calls the book "an indispensable resoure for scholars interested in the topic" which is high praise. Nevertheless, he complains that several collations that reviewers made in their reviews of the first edition are not incorporated, or only partially incorporated without comment, in the second edition. And he provides further corrections from his own collations based on the photographs or hand copies provided. This is, of course, standard practice in scholarship. If this were American history, however, I am sure that the editors would have been scandalized that he would dare do such a thing. After all, when the historians have spoken the thinking has been done.
