From: Paul S. Dixon (dixonps@juno.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 12:14:01 EST
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:44:53 -0500 Kevin and Sandi Anderson
<crossroads@sprynet.com> writes:
>Here is a bit of correspondence between Michael Bushell from
>BibleWorks and Kevin Anderson regarding Jeffrey Gibson's question about
an >electronic GNT with textual apparatus:
>
>Kevin Anderson asked:
>> Did I hear/read correctly when (I think) I learned that a future
release of
>> BibleWorks will have a Greet text of the NT that includes the textual
>> apparatus? If so, will the textual apparatus be that of NA27
(andpreferably
>> not the more meager one of UBS3)?
>
>Michael Bushell replied:
>I wish! We have talked with the German Bible Society about it but
>have not been able yet to get permission. It does exist in electronic
>for, but we have not been able to get a license. I think there may be
>questions about who actually owns the copyright that have not been
>resolved. We would love to add it to BW and plan to pursue it, but it
>won't be in 4.0 unless something akin to a miracle takes place.
>
>The same is true of BAGD. We came very close to having it in BW 4.0.
>We even have all the work done. But at the last moment license
>negations fell through, primarily because a new edition is due out
>next year and they don't want the old one sold any more and don't
>want electronic editions of the new one to compete with the printed
>one for at least a year. We have been assured that we can have the
>new BAGD in BW 5 or maybe an interim 4.+ release, but at the moment
>the U. of Chicago is not granting new BAGD licenses to anyone.
>
>B$ 4.0 will have Liddell-Sctoot though so all is not bad nes.
Was this a Freudian slip, or what? I don't know what BW 4.0 will cost,
but am thinking now it might be big $.
Thanks for the update on BW. Anybody know about Logos 2.0 and any plans
they might have for a critical apparatus? If not, I could look into it,
since I have it.
Paul Dixon
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