Lexham Research Commentary Reference

Tim Wells

I own the LRC for 1 Corinthians. This morning, as I was reading in this volume, the NICNT by Gordon Fee (1987) was referenced. It shows it as "locked" because I don't own it. When I click on it, it shows that I can by it for ~$19. However, in looking at my library, I do own it. Perhaps because I have the revised edition 1987/2014? I know they aren't exactly the same, but it would be really annoying to have to buy the older version by the same author just because LRC won't reference the new one.

I hope I won't run into this continually in the LRC.

MJ. Smith

Tim Wells said:

but it would be really annoying to have to buy the older version by the same author just because LRC won't reference the new one.

Standard academic practice ... you leave the references as the author referenced them. You don't guess where the new reference would be or if the changes in the text would change the author's opinion. Just like in hard copy, if you own an earlier (or later) copy, you as reader have to make the conversion. However, the ability to use the electronic search makes finding the probable text much easier.

David Thomas

With this quote from the NICNT 1 Cor REVISED product description "Fee's revised edition is based on the improved, updated (2011) edition of the NIV, and it takes into account the considerable scholarship on 1 Corinthians over the past twenty-five years. Fee has also eliminated "chapter and verse" language — totally foreign to Paul's first-century letter — relegating the necessary numbers for "finding things" to parentheses."

I can imagine statements that are referenced in the '87 that are hyperlinked in the LRC, may not be present in the newer edition that you own. I own both versions in Logos and would be glad to post snippets of the same reference frame in both editions.

sidenote: be glad that BOTH editions are available (even if a separate purchase)! When BDAG became available and BAGD was no longer permitted by the publisher, there is a library of materials that reference v.3 (BAGD) and the links are now dead.

Doug Mangum (Lexham)

Tim Wells said:

I own the LRC for 1 Corinthians. This morning, as I was reading in this volume, the NICNT by Gordon Fee (1987) was referenced. It shows it as "locked" because I don't own it. When I click on it, it shows that I can by it for ~$19. However, in looking at my library, I do own it. Perhaps because I have the revised edition 1987/2014? I know they aren't exactly the same, but it would be really annoying to have to buy the older version by the same author just because LRC won't reference the new one.

I hope I won't run into this continually in the LRC.

The LRC volume on 1 Cor was released in 2013, a year before the revised edition of Fee's commentary, so LRC was written using the first edition. You might run into this with LRC in similar circumstances where there is an edition that came out after our volume was released. Creating new second editions of all our LRC volumes for Paul's letters, which mostly came out in 2012-2014, would create its own set of difficulties around having a new product to buy, but it's a possibility. 

Tim Wells

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1264313#Comment_1264313

Doug Mangum said:

The LRC volume on 1 Cor was released in 2013, a year before the revised edition of Fee's commentary, so LRC was written using the first edition. You might run into this with LRC in similar circumstances where there is an edition that came out after our volume was released. Creating new second editions of all our LRC volumes for Paul's letters, which mostly came out in 2012-2014, would create its own set of difficulties around having a new product to buy, but it's a possibility.

Thanks, that makes sense. I appreciate the responses.