In a number of places one hears biblical scholars dream of a new kind of
commentary, a commentary with hypertext links and multimedia
elements. This paper, though it ends with such dreams, is based on the
experience of an ongoing project, begun in 1995, to discover the
opportunities and constraints on such a commentary (Postmodern Bible –
Amos). It explores the nature of hypermedia commentary writing, in the
light of this research.