BDAG 4th Edition

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 1 10:36:23 EDT 2000


At 10:12 AM -0400 5/1/00, Rodney J. Decker wrote:
>At 10:06 AM 5/1/00 -0400, Jim West wrote:
>>in his side and I will believe it.  But not until then.  If its out in
>>August I will sing amazing grace from the top of my house.  And film it, and
>>distribute it to all who wish to have a copy.
>
>Jim, you're a pessimist!  :)   (Though I can understand why.)
>
>My only curiosity is, how does this get to be the *4th* ed.? Won't it be
>3d? Or is U/Chg. going to pull a software trick and jump version numbers?
>Or is this more likely an Amazon blooper?

I would have said that this is the sort of epoch-making edition that
justifies the skipping of a little old number. Sort of like Netscape
jumping from version 4.7 to version 6.0. The arrival of an alleged new
millennium (I am one of the few who still thinks this is the last year of
the 20th century), has led to the hatching a a number of eschatological
wind-eggs. Still I confess that I pant, if not quite like the hart after
the water brooks, for the new edition of BDAG, whatever edition they want
to number it as.



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