[B-Greek] Bauer Arndt Gingrich Lexicon

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect.com
Wed May 12 11:49:45 EDT 2004


bgreek at ntresources.com wrote:
> At the risk of "tooting my own horn," might I refer you to... ?
> 
> http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/bdag.htm

Rodney has the following to say:

> But what if you already have the first or second edition of Bauer's
> lexicon (BAG or BAGD)? Here advice is more difficult. If all you have
> is one of the earlier editions and your eyes are not as keen as they
> once were, then the much improved legibility of the new BDAG may be
> worth your investment, especially if you do not also own Louw and
> Nida's Lexicon, for then you would gain the added definitions as
> well. If you own an earlier edition and you also have Louw and Nida,
> then the choice becomes more difficult. You might decide to be
> content with these two tools--and that would be a viable decision if
> you regularly use both these tools together. More commonly Louw and
> Nida sits on the shelf untouched, and that is not good. It does take
> longer to consult two reference tools than one--and Louw and Nida is
> more clumsy to use than Bauer since one must first find the word in
> the index volume and then trace its multiple occurrences in the main
> volume. The gain in using the new BDAG might well expedite your study
> and even prompt you to pull down Louw and Nida to compare
> definitions.

That's spot on!

I currently have BDAG (the 3rd edition), BAGD (the 2d edition), and Louw 
and Nida. Until I got BDAG, I almost always had to use both BAGD and 
Louw and Nida, and that took significantly more time, especially since I 
often had to refer to several places in Louw and Nida. Now that I have 
BDAG, I rarely use Louw and Nida unless I have lots of time, because 
it's so much faster with BDAG.

By the way, I would like to give my BAGD (the 2d edition) to a student 
or to someone else for whom it is not easy to scratch up the money for a 
brand new lexicon. Please contact me by private email if you're interested.

Jonathan



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