[B-Greek] biblical greek dictionaries
James Spinti
JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Thu Dec 29 12:46:10 EST 2005
I would second George's recommendations. Thayer's should not be used --
ever, period. I refuse to even list it on our site, doing so would be
misleading. The reason it is even offered by many places is because it
is in the public domain, allowing free copying.
I finally broke down and bought BDAG about a year ago after using BAGD
for over 20 years. I had a discussion with Danker at AAR/SBL and he
convinced me. It is definitely worth every penny.
If I am traveling and can't carry BDAG, then I will use either Barclay
Newman's little dictionary or else Trenchard's Concise Dictionary. But,
for serious work, BDAG is IT for NT work. LSJ and Lampe are very good
for supplementing what you find in BDAG, if you can afford them :) I own
LSJ, but not Lampe or L&N, although I have toyed with getting L&N for a
while now.
HTH,
James
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> George F Somsel
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: ericb at gracechurchreno.org
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] biblical greek dictionaries
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:49:13 -0800 "Eric Biggs"
> <ericb at gracechurchreno.org> writes:
> > Michael Ledford had asked, "How does one evaluate the
> helpfulness or
> > usefulness of such a lexicon?"
> >
> > I have Thayers, Louw & Nida's, Frieberg and the BDAG. I evaluate
> > the BDAG as being the best due to it's comprensiveness, (which I
> > don't always think that "more is better", but this tome outshines
> > Thayers and Frieberg). In my opinion due to the semantic domain
> > set-up of Louw & Nida, I would put it in a different category of
> > Lexicon which I think should also be used side by side with
> the BDAG
> > in exegetical work.
> >
> > Though, I would put Louw & Nida in a close 2nd and 3rd in the top 3
> > list that George recommends, I do see the value of his
> > recommendation...what would be your fourth pick, George?
> >
> >
> > In Christ,
> >
> > Eric Biggs
> > zealous student
> > Reno, NV USA
> ____________
>
> That's simple !
>
> BDAG
>
> L & N is occasionally useful when I want to see how a word
> might differ
> from other fairly synonymous terms -- but not often. If you can't get
> BDAG, then I suppose you could use BGAD (I did for a time).
>
> george
> gfsomsel
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