[B-Greek] How exhaustive is BDAG?
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Sat Nov 6 12:31:11 EST 2004
>On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:24:08 -0500 Kelly McDonald <w4kpm at adelphia.net>
>writes:
>> When I look up a word in BDAG(3rd ed) I will almost always find the
>> scripture reference that I am looking for, however sometimes I will
>> not
>> find it... how exhaustive are the listings in BDAG?
The "Forward to the Revised Edition" (p. x) says, "The proliferation
of papyri and new editions of early Christian literature suggests
caution about certainty respecting completeness of citation. The use
of asterisks (indicating completeness of citation, either of the NT
or the Apostolic Fathers or both) at the end of entries has therefore
been abandoned. But 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."
Besides the software recommended by gfsomsel, there are the standard
paper concordances of Moulton and Geden and of Aland, and I'll put in
a plug for the incomplete but handy and relatively inexpensive
_Handkonkordanz Zum Griechischen Testament_ by Schmoller, which marks
incomplete entries with an asterisk.
See:
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/bibleref.htm#concord
for an annotated bibliography that you might find helpful.
John
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