[B-Greek] RE: Trench's Synonyms

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 8 12:46:23 EST 2005


I picked up (hardcover) this book by Stewart Custer at
Mardel Bookstore last night for $12.95 - apparently
the new lower price:

http://www.bjup.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&productId=10012

> Kevin Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net 
> Wed Feb 19 07:43:42 EST 2003 
> 
>
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> Actually, there is a more recent book on synonyms 
> that does just that. 
> 
> Custer, Stewart. A Treasury of New Testament 
> Synonyms. Greenville, South Carolina: Bob Jones 
> University Press, 1975. 143 pages. ISBN: 0890840253
>
> --- "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 at attbi.com> 
> wrote:
>> I'm surprised that no one has explicitly pointed
out
>> that Trench produced his
>> book (a) before the discovery of the papyri and
much
>> of the epigraphical data
>> and (b) that the material he was drawing on in his
>> claims about what was and
>> what wasn't a synonym of Greek words used by NT
>> authors was primarily (if not
>> exclusively) from the Classical Period of Greek
>> literature, thus giving an
>> anachronistic slant to the semantic range of the
>> words whose meanings he was
>> trying to illustrate.
>> 
>> Perhaps what we need is a new Trench that is more
>> synchronic in nature than
>> the old Trench is/was  and which makes use of the
>> data to which Trench was not
>> privy?
>> 
>> Yours,
>> 
>> Jeffrey Gibson


Eric S. Weiss



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