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Actually, I would have to look that up myself to discover if it were in the book. The OT section was written by Walter Kaiser. I wrote roughly half of the NT section and all of the introductory parts. F. F. Bruce started the project with Hard Sayings of Jesus. This was successful so Manfred Brauch was asked to write Hard Sayings of Paul. I was then asked to write More Hard Sayings, which not only included "the rest" other than Jesus and Paul, but also included some sayings of Jesus and Paul that clearly needed covering. The idea of the final volume was already in the works. Finally Walter Kaiser was asked to write the Old Testament part and I to write a volume of "introductory articles" and sayings, especially from Jesus and Paul, but also from the rest of the New Testament, that needed covering. Neither Walter Kaiser's volume nor my final volume were ever published separately, but rather the whole collection came out as Hard Sayings. And the rest, as they say, is history. One footnote: while I know little about Manfred Brauch, Walter Kaiser was my teacher at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and F. F. Bruce the Rylands Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester where I did my PhD. While all were evangelicals (FFB very British in his attitudes and of course now deceased), we were and are divergent in our interpretive stances, especially about the use of the Old Testament in the New. And yet the book does have cohesion.