Info on NT vocabulary
hefin jones
hefinjones at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 27 04:06:51 EST 2002
Thanks Jurg,
Lots and lots of useful information here. Thanks for pointing out the
research.
However, there seem to be a couple of confusions. First, NT hapax legomena
in my question (1) is very straightforward (or so I thought) i.e. words
which occur once in the NT corpus (without regard for their occurance or
otherwise elsewhere).
Second, the claim made by the Cambridge reader is not that there are 900
neo-logisms, but rather that there are 900 words in the NT that would have
been unfamiliar to someone trained in CLASSICAL (ie. pre KOINE/Hellenistic
Greek). It is not claiming that there are 900 neologisms, hence my question
(2).
What you have done admirably is put together an answer to my question (3).
So, thanks again.
Anyone feel like identifying (900 - 70) hellenisic greek words?
Hefin
>From: Jürg Buchegger <j.buchegger at datacomm.ch>
>Reply-To: Jürg Buchegger <j.buchegger at datacomm.ch>
>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: [b-greek] Info on NT vocabulary
>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:05:27 +0100
>
>Dear Hefin,
>
>The number of 900 is definitely too high.
>
>I may help you with some information on the vocabulary of the corpus
>paulinum (all
>13 epistles, claiming to be written by Paul): My research with the help of
>published
>(Kennedy, Nägeli, Deissmann, Grimm-Wilke, Thayer, Gingrich,
>Moulton-Milligan,
>Bauer/Aland, Morgenthaler, Turner, Voelz, Rehkopf, Classen,
>Liddell-Scott-Jones,
>New-Documents-Series, ...) and electronic resources (TLG, DDBDP, Perseus,
>...)
>showed for Paul (see: "Mögliche paulinische Neologismen. Ein Beitrag zur
>Erforschung
>des paulinischen griechischen Wortschatzes", in: Jahrbuch für evangelikale
>Theologie
>15, 2001, 11-35):
>- there are 87 words which are for the first time attested in the CP and
>also used afterwards
>- there are 7 words that up to now have only been found in the CP AND in
>citations of
>these pauline texts in the Churchfathers
>Note that this list of words is no more than a statistical list.
>It may be interesting to hear what others thought to be accurate numbers of
>absolute
>Neologisms in the NT (note: for the whole NT, others: just Paul):
>- Grimm-Wilke (1888): 28 words "vox bibl. et eccl." and 225 words without
>or
>with only
>very few findings outside the biblical and ecclesiastical texts
>- Thayer (1886/89): 767 "biblical words"
>- Kennedy (1895): 550
>- Deissmann (1908): not more than 50 words
>- Nägeli (1904): 38 words for a-e and in Paul only!
>- Morgenthaler (1958): 132 words for Paul
>- Turner (1974): 15 words for Paul
>- Rehkopf (1985): 80 words for the whole NT
>
>Finally, if we take e.g. my list of roughly 95 words for Paul and
>extrapolate this number for the vocabulary of the whole NT we
>will not end up with 900 words. My own "calculation" (taking
>into consideration a few more factors) is, that within the whole
>NT we do not find more than 70 greek words, that may be
>genuine NT-Neologims (by the way: "NT hapax legomena" is
>a very unprecise (?) term for what we are talking about here).
>
>Jürg Buchegger
>Pfr., Dr.theol.
>senior-pastor EFC Buchs, Switzerland
>
>
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