BAGD delays

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jun 23 20:44:01 EDT 2000


At 8:16 PM -0400 6/23/00, Frank W. Hughes wrote:
>They've really been announcing firm publication dates for Bauer-Danker for
>7 years?  Wow!  They should give us an even bigger discount at SBL!

Not quite. Four years is a bit more like it, and a TARGET DATE is not the
same thing as a FIRM PUBLICATION DATE--maybe Jim West will have to up the
ante. I just found this in the archives of B-Greek 1995. Of course, Edgar
has since retired  from his post at Chicago and was last heard of somewhere
on the west coast of the U.S.:

At 4:55 PM -0600 8/28/95, Edgar M. Krentz wrote:
>Some time ago Eric Weiss asked
>
>>What is the status of the English edition of the revision to BAGD, i.e., when
>>will it be available, what is the retail and discount mail-order price?
>
>I answered him with the following information, which may be of interest to
>readers of B-Greek [I don't think it appeared there, at least not to my
>recollection.
>
>Fred Danker delivered the completed manuscript of the third edition to the
>University of Chicago Press in early April. (Can one call something on a
>hard disk a manuscript?)
>
>I called Fred for more information. He is now in the labor-intensive task
>of reading page proofs. The target date for its appearance in print is the
>Society of Biblical Literature meeting in 1996, i.e. Thanksgiving, 1996. Of
>course, it is always possible that the press might publish a bit beofre
>that date.
>
>The price is not yet set, of course. Fred has asked the press to keep it
>below $75.00, if possible; but that may be a dream of Fred's that will not
>correlate with reality. No one can guess what the mail-order discount price
>will be--or if indeed there will be one!
>
>I no longer have students purchase the 2nd edition. I will recommend the
>purchase of Abbott-Smith's _Manual Greek Lexicon_ or some other small work
>(Souter, if still in print) and send them to the library to use BAGD, ed.
>2.
>
>If you want more accurate information, you might drop a note to Prof.
>Frederick W. Danker, 3438 Russell Ave., St. Louis, MO 63104. Tel.:
>314-772-5757.
>
>Peace,
>
>Edgar Krentz <emkrentz at mcs.com>
>New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
Summer: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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