Secular Greek Search Engine?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jul 9 17:19:20 EDT 2002
At 5:09 PM -0400 7/9/02, Matthew R. Miller wrote:
>Is there a secular Greek search engine anywhere? Or, is there any way I
>could compare biblical Greek words with their usage in secular Greek
>without purchasing and reading all of secular Greek literature? Thanks!
>Matthew R. Miller
There is one major tool for doing this, the collection of texts at the
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. You might explore the site:
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/
There is a vast amount of secular as well as Jewish and Christian Greek
texts available for search on the CD-ROM for which TLG issues a (not
inexpensive) license or which may be accessed directly from the web site,
if one has the proper license to do that. There are a variety of search
engines available for major platforms to search the TLG texts for
vocabulary or collocations of words pretty much as you wish to shape the
search. On the other hand, careful use of LSJ and BDAG along with Louw &
Nida will take you pretty far in discerning the more likely relationships
between secular and Biblical usage of Greek words.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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