New AENT Website

[The Texas RAT]

"I couldn't begin to list all the contributors to the AENT... I've retained some key contributor email since 1998 (over 16,000)...for personal reasons many have chosen to be anonymous and refused credits... many including myself view the AENT as an "open source" project for the benefit of the Body of Mashiyach... some brothers invested years of research that I distilled into single footnotes... we've had tremendous support and input from nearly everyone at peshitta.org and personal letters from the COE... it doesn't get much better than that... but I'm hoping to interview some of the contributors going forward.

No 6th Edition on the horizon."

I gathered as much, from reading through the threads on the AENT, that Roth had gathered everything he could get from this site (playing on the good nature of people here) by asking people if he could use their stuff in his work saying he would produce it free of charge to the world. But when the time came to freely give it out Roth's true nature/colors/intent came through as he had intended to from the start to make a killing on the info by over charging for his copyrighted material. So I agree with Roth's statement here that it was the people from Peshitta.org that are the real people behind the AENT. But as far as Roth taking into account any thing from any body as far as editing Roth has ignored every last one so far as I can tell. Perhaps only one of the mistakes has been fixed from the 1st edition to the 5th. So any statement implicating that 1000s of people helped to edited the contexts of the 5th edition of the AENT collection would not be of truth. A more truthful staement would be such as "I Roth gathered together 1000s of other's educated indepth studies and two well known scolarly works and compiled them all into one work, but there has been none other's opinions taken into account as far as editing goes throughout the entire AENT collection (1st Edition thru the 5th)." So the claim that "Over 1,000 leading language scholars and Bible students have rigorously dedicated their unrivaled expertise to the 5th edition of the AENT." does not hold water. It not only could have, and should had, been said about the 1st edition but not the 5th. But hey, what ever helps increase sells, right!