Hekhal editorial
Editorial board & the review model
Hekhal is openly licensed and rigorously sourced. The machine-assisted editions are published glass-box: provisional, with their method exposed, until a credentialed scholar reads them against the original and graduates them. This page is the public record of that process.
The model
- 1 An edition is produced with the Targum engine and published provisional, carrying an honest banner and its full apparatus.
- 2 A reviewer reads it against the source of record and judges accuracy, fidelity, and honesty about what is contested.
- 3 On sign-off it becomes reviewed; the reviewer's name and the date attach to the edition as its warrant, and the citation metadata records the review.
Reviewers vouch for one thing only: that a specific text is rendered and described accurately. They do not endorse Hekhal's framing or its inclusion choices. The same discipline governs the Sugya position-graph, where no scholarly claim renders without a real, citable source.
Reviewers
Hekhal is recruiting its first reviewers. Until an edition is signed off it stays marked provisional, so nothing here is overclaimed. There are currently 63 manuscript editions awaiting review.
The standards a reviewer applies
- Provenance first. Every text has a named source of record; every claim about it cites a real source.
- No confabulation. A machine draft's plausible-but-unsupported readings are exactly what review is for.
- Honest about dispute. Where scholars disagree, the edition surfaces the disagreement rather than smoothing it.
- Glass-box until graduated. Provisional editions say so, plainly, on the page.
The full methodology is in the editorial standards.