BDAG - where are *-*?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Sep 15 12:33:39 EDT 2002
At 12:23 PM -0400 9/15/02, Jim West wrote:
>At 11:15 AM 9/15/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>Ok. I'ld like to buy one. But who wrote BDAG, and is this the title of the
>>book, or an abbreviation of some sort?
>>
>>Toby
>
>hello toby
>
>BDAG is the abbreviation of the editors:
>bauer, danker, arndt and gingrich
>
>the title is a greek english lexicon of the new testament and other early
>christian literature.
>
>its kinda overpriced (as are virtually all books these days). what you can
>find in it you can find online at perseus. books are better but perseus is
>free.
Jim is certainly entitled to his opinion, but I disagree heartily (rather
than cordially!) with that opinion: (a) I suppose he's referring to the LSJ
lexicon available on the Perseus web-site: that is a very good and very
important lexicon, but it is fundamentally a classical Greek lexicon; BDAG
(Bauer-Danker-Arndt-Gingrich, 3d ed.) is a specialized dictionary of New
Testament and related Hellenistic Greek Patristic and other early Christian
texts; it includes considerable information not to be found in LSJ; if
one's special concern is the NT, I would urge one to have BDAG rather than
LSJ; the more serious student might well want to have both; for my part,
I'm glad that I have not only BDAG but also the Glare-revised edition of
LSJ in hard copy.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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