BDAG - where are *-*?
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Sun Sep 15 13:09:01 EDT 2002
At 12:33 PM 9/15/02 -0400, you wrote:
>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;
this is precisely the problem i have with "specialized" lexica. it almost
sounds as if there is some special christian lingo to be found amongst the
literary remains we call the new testament- when in fact they used the same
koine that their neighbors in the market used. i remember the so called
"holy ghost greek" discussions of years gone by- discussions which suggested
that the nt was written in a language completely disconnected from its
historical context. i cordially disagree with that notion.
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.
why though? if one has the oxford english dictionary does one need
webster's new collegiate?
best as always
jim
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Quartz Hill School of Theology
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