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Sep 7 2008

The difficulty of predicting future publications

by John Dyer

There are supposedly 100s of forthcoming commentaries in various series by various authors, but the accuracy of this somewhat dubious. Authors often commit to projects they cannot complete due to a variety of circumstances.

An example is the Word Biblical Commentary on 1 Corinthians. It has an ISBN number (084990238X), but there are conflicting reports as to who is actually writing it and when:

So, various sites list at least four different authors,and even the publisher doesn't seem to be sure. A close personal correspondent of Dr. Clarke says that he is in fact working on it and is surprised that Thomas Nelson and Linda Belleville still have outdated information. For now, I have both Clarke and Belville listed to cover the bases, but hopefully there will be some clarity down the line.