[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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