Anthology
Back to Andreas J. Köstenberger

Cover courtesy of Baker Publishing Group

Publication

Date published
December 2004
Print status
Out of print

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardcover
Dust jacket
No
Total pages
720 pages
ISBN-13
9780801026447

Reference

Plagiarism check
Flagged
Notes
Withdrawn from print by Baker Academic in 2017. Köstenberger himself brought the problem to the publisher: the commentary carried a series of unattributed references to D. A. Carson's Pillar commentary on John, traced to notes a research assistant had taken on Carson roughly twenty years earlier and then reused across later projects. Köstenberger apologised to Carson, made restitution to him and to his publisher, and said he intended a fresh edition. Zondervan separately withdrew a volume of its Illustrated Bible Commentary containing his work on the same Gospel. Copies already sold remain in circulation, which is why the volume is catalogued here rather than deleted.

Sources

  1. [1]Best Commentaries — John [Withdrawn], Andreas J. Köstenberger (catalogue entry recording the withdrawal)
  2. [2]Zwinglius Redivivus — “Commentary Plagiarism, Again, Causes Baker to Pull Koestenberger's Commentary on John” (1 November 2017)
  3. [3]The Patrologist — “Sweeping plagiarism under the rug” (14 November 2017)
  4. [4]Exegetical Tools — “More of Your Favorite Commentaries Contain Accidental Plagiarism” (7 December 2017), on the research-assistant notes behind the errors
  5. [5]Triablogue — “Jesus, John, and plagiarism” (November 2019), a later assessment
  6. [6]Wikipedia — Andreas J. Köstenberger