Regulations

§ Name and location
The name of the project is The Hebrew Bible Translation Project.

The project is located in Copenhagen. It is an independent unit domiciled at the Department of Orientalia and Judaica, the Royal Library of Denmark.

§ 2 Funding
External funding covers the expenses of the project.

§ 3 Purpose
The main purpose of the project is to provide an annotated retranslation of the Hebrew Bible into Danish on a secular basis.

In more definite terms, the project will result in the implementation of the following items:

• an annotated Library Edition in several volumes to be published successively in the years to come.
• a non-annotated Standard Edition to be published successively in several volumes in the years to come as well as in one volume to be published when the translation of the entire Hebrew Bible has been completed.

§ 4 Direction
The project will be directed by an editorial board taking the form of an executive committee consisting of no less than three and no more than five members:

• 1 Chairman.
• 1 Editor-in-Chief.
• 1-3 members of the editorial board.

Apart from this, a sub-editor will be appointed; the sub-editor will be responsible for the continuous financial administration and for preparing the annual accounts.

The editorial board will nominate the chairman and editor-in-chief among themselves. The chairman must be a scholar. All members of the editorial board must have degrees relevant to the implementation of the purpose of the project.

Subsection 2. Responsibility and authority of the editorial board:
The editorial board holds the overall responsibility for the activities of the project, professionally, economically and administratively, and it will:

• make decisions to employ or dismiss the participants of the project.
• make decisions of essential importance to the project, including decisions regarding the signing of contracts, (changes in) work schedules, publication etc.
• determine the final form of the translation.
• approve the budget and monitor its observation.
• approve the annual accounts after they have been scrutinized by a chartered accountant.
• make decisions regarding possible changes of the regulations of the project, cf. §4, subsection 6.
• represent the project to the public.

Subsection 3. The separate responsibility and authority of the Chairman
The Chairman will:

• supervise the conditions and management of the project.
• ensure that the accounting and administration of the project’s funds are being controlled in a satisfactory manner.
• in writing convene the four annual mandatory meetings and convene meetings as often as the other members of the editorial board may request it.
• see that minutes of meetings, including resolutions, are written for all meetings.
• take care that the present regulations are observed.

Subsection 4. The separate responsibility and authority of the Editor-In-Chief
The Editor-in-Chief will:

• attend to the daily management and be held responsible for his decisions by the editorial board.
• take decisions in special cases of disagreement of a professional and/or scholarly nature.
• at each meeting inform the editorial board of the general activities of the project, including performance with respect to timetables, work schedules, (forthcoming) publications etc.
• assume professional and legal responsibility for the project’s publications.
• represent the project to the public from day to day.

Subsection 5. The meetings of the editorial board
The editorial board shall convene at least four times each year, or as often as deemed necessary.

The agenda will be distributed at least eight days before each meeting.

Minutes of meetings, including descriptions of all decisions, will be elaborated for all meetings. The minutes of meeting will be sent to all members of the editorial board no later than eight days after each meeting.

Subsection 6. Working procedures of the editorial board
The editorial board will lay down its working procedures as requested by its members.

The editorial board will form a quorum when the Chairman, the Editor-in-Chief and at least one other member of the editorial board are present. However, decisions regarding engagements and dismissals, approval of budgets and accounts and changes of regulations may only be taken when all members of the editorial board are present.

Decisions are taken by majority votes. In cases of parity of votes, the vote of the chairman will be decisive.

Decisions of a professional and/or scholarly nature may not, however, be taken by a vote.

§ 5 Copyright and royalties
The copyright of the new bible translation belongs to The Hebrew Bible Translation Project.

The editorial board will receive and internally distribute 50 per cent of all royalties. These royalties will be divided equally between the members of the editorial board.

The remaining 50 per cent of all royalties will be deposited in a pool. The editorial board will decide how to distribute these funds.

§ 6 Accounts and auditing
The accounts of the project shall be elaborated according to the existing laws. A chartered accountant employed by the editorial board will approve the annual accounts. The financial year will follow the calendar year.

§ 7 Coming into force of these regulations
These regulation will come into force when signed by all members of the editorial board and an attorney.

Signed:

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