BDAG 4th Edition
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Mon May 1 11:41:11 EDT 2000
In a message dated 5/1/00 9:37:13 AM, cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
<< >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. >>
One wonders what the bibliographic entry on this will be. For instance, I was
instructed that the last edition's bibliography should be something like
Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early
Christian Literature. Translation and adaption of the 4th revised and
augmented ed. of Walter Bauer's Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch zu den
Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der übrigen urchristlichen Literatur by
William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich; 2d ed. revised and augmented by F.
Wilbur Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker from Walter Bauer's 5th ed., 1958.
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1979.
This can make the edition number very confusing.
Charles Powell
DTS
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