Cooperative edited volumes fail when contributors write at unequal levels

Evidence

The editing of such co-operative works is always difficult; indeed, by a form of exegesis familiar to all three faiths, one might read a ban on such enterprises into the pentateuchal commandment not to yoke creatures of unequal size and strength. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1308

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

• SEED: A possible essay angle: editorial craftsmanship as a kind of scriptural exegesis — how the biblical injunction against unequal yoking maps onto assembling multi-author anthologies.
• CANDY: The punny allusion to the unequal-yoking commandment as a ban on edited volumes is light, clever, and retellable.