[B-Greek] old Greek dictionaries
Minton, Ron
rminton at bible.edu
Wed Dec 8 10:57:49 EST 2004
As far as I am aware, the first Greek lexicon was published in 1480, but it
was little more than a word list. The first volume of the Complutensian
Polyglot (1514-1517) (see Chapter Three and Appendix Two) contained 75
unnumbered pages of a Greek-Latin glossary. Henri Estienne (Stephanus) II,
son of Robert Stephanus, published a better Lexicon in 1572. No scholarly
Greek dictionary was made until 1619 when George Pasor (1570-1637) published
his Lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Novum Testamentum. Pasor's dictionary was
printed with a Greek New Testament by Henri Stephanus. In 1640 the first
Greek lexicon to have the words listed alphabetically, rather than by roots,
was published.
For discussions, see Frederick W. Danker, "New Testament Greek Grammars and
Lexicons" in Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study (4th ed., Minneapolis:
Fortress, 1993), pp. 109-31, and the foreword in Bauer, Walter, Frederick
Danker, W.F. Arndt, F.W. Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the NT and
Other Early Christian Literature. 3d ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
2000 - ISBN 0-226-03933-1.
Ron Minton
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Custer [mailto:leoncuster at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:47 AM
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [B-Greek] old Greek dictionaries
Does anyone know the date of the oldest extant Greek dictionary where at
least more than one page has survived? Also, where could one see a copy of
it? thanks
leon custer
kernersville, nc
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