Mattillo: Doug, just curious when you think those updates will be pushed out. March? Q2? Thank you
Doug, just curious when you think those updates will be pushed out. March? Q2? Thank you
No fixed timeline. Here's what needs to happen.
So we're at #1 and I hope to have that one settled in February with #2 happening right after #1 if at all possible. If that happens, #3 would happen in March. And so on. Sometime in Q2 is possible if I get the content in the next few weeks and the copyeditor is available.
That sounds like a lot of work! Thank you sir. I"ll wait until Q2 then :)
I think you'll be happy with the final results. It's likely to turn out to be the highest word count of coverage for the NT books due to the depth of connections to point out for John's Gospel.
I have no doubt I'll be extremely pleased! Hence why I keep bugging you :)
I really, really like the stuff Lexham/Logos/FL puts out. Great stuff and top notch quality.
I'm looking forward to the LCC both OT and NT, the OT Lexham Geographic Comms, and the NT introduction series (3 volume). I'm quite happy with the EEC too!
Thank you for taking the time to respond sir
Doug Mangum: Mattillo: Good Morning! Just curious how John is coming for the Context Commentary... end of Q3 or sooner? Thank you The author is still wrapping up his final draft for John. It is a substantial contribution to the LCC at over 100k words. We intend to have it out this fall, but that will depend on when he submits his final draft. The OT counterpart is also underway, and we hope to have it substantially completed over the next 18 months.
Mattillo: Good Morning! Just curious how John is coming for the Context Commentary... end of Q3 or sooner? Thank you
Good Morning! Just curious how John is coming for the Context Commentary... end of Q3 or sooner? Thank you
The author is still wrapping up his final draft for John. It is a substantial contribution to the LCC at over 100k words. We intend to have it out this fall, but that will depend on when he submits his final draft. The OT counterpart is also underway, and we hope to have it substantially completed over the next 18 months.
Doug
I noticed the LCC OT was updated today but it obviously isn't finished yet. Just curious how that is coming along and what updates were made if you know.
Mattillo: I noticed the LCC OT was updated today but it obviously isn't finished yet. Just curious how that is coming along and what updates were made if you know.
My focus recently with LCC has been on the editorial for John 1–10, so my co-editors were the ones responsible for the OT update. I think it was adding content that has come in and been edited since last fall, but I don't know the particulars.
Thank you Doug!
I believe this update was more internal corrections than new content, as the version is dated 2/11/21. The next new content update is planned for early Fall with the content submitted by early summer, which should be the Pentateuch and most of the Historical Books. The balance of the material will be shipped when it is all completed, hopefully by end of Q1 of 2022.
Thank you Dr Runge
Good evening Doug! Just checking back on LCC John. You mention 1-10 above. Is anyone working on the other half as well?
Mattillo: Just checking back on LCC John. You mention 1-10 above. Is anyone working on the other half as well?
Just checking back on LCC John. You mention 1-10 above. Is anyone working on the other half as well?
The same author is finishing John 11–21. The first half is going through editorial here, but I don't have an estimate yet of when it will appear in the resource.
Thank you Doug
Doug Mangum: Mattillo: Just checking back on LCC John. You mention 1-10 above. Is anyone working on the other half as well? The same author is finishing John 11–21. The first half is going through editorial here, but I don't have an estimate yet of when it will appear in the resource.
Good Morning Doug! Just curious how finishing the LCC is coming. Thanks!
Doug Mangum: Geographic Commentary Pentateuch is in the late stages of editorial production and map/media curation and creation with digital release likely sometime in the next few months. Content for Geographic Commentary Historical Books is in very early stages of editorial review. Submissions for Geographic Commentary Poetry/Prophecy are just starting to trickle in (they weren't due until next month).
Geographic Commentary Pentateuch is in the late stages of editorial production and map/media curation and creation with digital release likely sometime in the next few months. Content for Geographic Commentary Historical Books is in very early stages of editorial review. Submissions for Geographic Commentary Poetry/Prophecy are just starting to trickle in (they weren't due until next month).
Good Morning Doug!
2nd question... how is the Geographic Commentary coming?
I'm sorry for the delay in replying, Mattillo. I was out of the office most of last week.
I believe Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Pentateuch is close to being ready to be prepared for release in Logos. We had some custom images and maps still in the works. I don't know that a specific release date is set yet, though, or whether the digital production process has started yet. For the other Geographic Commentary volumes, Historical vol 1 is in first round Lexham editorial (academic review and dialogue with authors about their content). Historical vol 2 is pending completion of first round work on vol 1. Poetry and Prophecy content is either with the authors (still writing), with the series editor, or submitted and waiting in line behind Historical Books.
Lexham Context Commentary: Old Testament is moving along, but most of the current batch of content is waiting on me to organize and pass along to the copy editor. The notes on a few books are still with the authors, but most of it has gone through our first round of editing that happens prior to copy edits. Then there's a batch of notes that have come back from copy edit but are awaiting final review. I'm currently the bottleneck there, but I was not planning to release an update to the OT until I got everything in from the authors. It remains to be seen whether this current round of writing will be "it" for the resource or whether we'll keep going with adding more detail. This round mostly adds notes to the "Paragraph" level, but in some parts of the OT, that left room for more detail to be added for users to be able to "zoom in" to a span of a few verses (which had been my original goal). I'm leaning toward a third round of writing for some books where more detail might be helpful. But if I do that, I still plan to release the round 2 content, probably in the first half of next year (round 1 was what came out with Logos 9).
I don't have updated information on LCC John. Final review of the notes on John 1–10 is still in my court because I have too many competing things to edit (just being honest).
With my projects, I am trying to give you a bit of a look behind the scenes, and things are moving ahead at different stages. With these series, outcomes are much more in my control and less dependent on others. We do have content in hand; there are words on a page somewhere for editors to work on. I'm not always able to accurately predict when we'll finish working on those words, though. For example, LCC John is 75k words on just John 1–10. LCCOT is somewhere north of 600k words (I haven't finished calculating yet). LGC Pentateuch is over 320k words; LGC Historical Books vols 1 and 2 are over 420k words. And LGC Poetry and Prophecy should come in around 175k–200k. I can't move too much faster without sacrificing quality.
That's awesome! Though it is sad LCCNT will take a bit longer, I'm glad quality is the focus. I appreciate the time you took to respond to this.
I hope you have a great night!
Doug Mangum: I'm sorry for the delay in replying, Mattillo. I was out of the office most of last week. I believe Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Pentateuch is close to being ready to be prepared for release in Logos. We had some custom images and maps still in the works. I don't know that a specific release date is set yet, though, or whether the digital production process has started yet. For the other Geographic Commentary volumes, Historical vol 1 is in first round Lexham editorial (academic review and dialogue with authors about their content). Historical vol 2 is pending completion of first round work on vol 1. Poetry and Prophecy content is either with the authors (still writing), with the series editor, or submitted and waiting in line behind Historical Books. Lexham Context Commentary: Old Testament is moving along, but most of the current batch of content is waiting on me to organize and pass along to the copy editor. The notes on a few books are still with the authors, but most of it has gone through our first round of editing that happens prior to copy edits. Then there's a batch of notes that have come back from copy edit but are awaiting final review. I'm currently the bottleneck there, but I was not planning to release an update to the OT until I got everything in from the authors. It remains to be seen whether this current round of writing will be "it" for the resource or whether we'll keep going with adding more detail. This round mostly adds notes to the "Paragraph" level, but in some parts of the OT, that left room for more detail to be added for users to be able to "zoom in" to a span of a few verses (which had been my original goal). I'm leaning toward a third round of writing for some books where more detail might be helpful. But if I do that, I still plan to release the round 2 content, probably in the first half of next year (round 1 was what came out with Logos 9). I don't have updated information on LCC John. Final review of the notes on John 1–10 is still in my court because I have too many competing things to edit (just being honest). With my projects, I am trying to give you a bit of a look behind the scenes, and things are moving ahead at different stages. With these series, outcomes are much more in my control and less dependent on others. We do have content in hand; there are words on a page somewhere for editors to work on. I'm not always able to accurately predict when we'll finish working on those words, though. For example, LCC John is 75k words on just John 1–10. LCCOT is somewhere north of 600k words (I haven't finished calculating yet). LGC Pentateuch is over 320k words; LGC Historical Books vols 1 and 2 are over 420k words. And LGC Poetry and Prophecy should come in around 175k–200k. I can't move too much faster without sacrificing quality.
Good Morning Mr Doug! I was curious if you might have a end of 2021 update on the above titles. I do know your busy so no rush! Thank you for keeping us updated on this.
Mattillo: Good Morning Mr Doug! I was curious if you might have a end of 2021 update on the above titles. I do know your busy so no rush! Thank you for keeping us updated on this.
Asking for updates every few weeks doesn't make the process go any faster. Maybe just wait. Writing a commentary is probably not a linear process like manufacturing goods on an assembly line. It's hard for them to give precise timelines.
Mattillo: I was curious if you might have a end of 2021 update on the above titles.
I was curious if you might have a end of 2021 update on the above titles.
There's been a little progress since September, but nothing really significant. Things are slow because so many of these things are waiting on me to literally wade through hundreds of thousands of words.