Re. BDAG - where are *-*?

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Thu Sep 12 12:13:08 EDT 2002


> But ... unless I overlooked it or didn't note the "new" 
> abbreviation/sign for this, I cannot see that BDAG indicates 
> when all the NT occcurrences of a word have been listed in the 
> lexical entry. Maybe it's explained in the lengthy introduction. 
>It's not listed on the Abbreviations page as it is at the top of 
>that page in BAGD.

Sorry, but the asterisk system is no more. It's explained in the intro. (p. x). Personally I think that is one of the few problems with the new edition. Although they say that "students can count on completeness of citation of all except the most common words appearing in the main text of the 27th edition of Nestle"--that's neither comforting nor helpful for now one must always check a concordance (whether paper or electronic). I understand Danker's reluctance to indicate completeness of other early Christian literature in this way, but it could easily have been indicated whether or not the text of NA27 was cataloged completely or not.

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