[B-Greek] Word Studies

Wilson Hines wilsonhines at hotmail.com
Tue May 3 15:35:56 EDT 2005


Yes ma'am, very helpful.

Mr. Vincent was A.T. Robertson's Mentor and his scholarship and thoroughness
was hard to beat for the time.  However, by the time Mr. Robertson wrote
Word Pictures in the N.T there were enough discoveries out there to make
some of what Mr. Vincent wrote a bit dated, but only a small amount was
effected.  Robertson quotes Vincent 146 times in his Word Pics.  

Logos Research has an electronic edition of both the Word Studies in the N.T
by Vincent and the Word Pics in the NT by Robertson.  I have both in
hardback and the electronic editions and I love'em and use'em both all the
time.

Of Vincent, Dr. Robertson says in the Preface to Word Pics:

	PREFACE
	It has now been forty years since Dr. Marvin R. Vincent wrote his
most useful series of volumes entitled 	Word Studies in the New Testament.
They are still helpful for those for whom they were designed, but a great
deal of water has run under the mill in these years. More scientific
methods of philology are now in 	use. No longer are Greek tenses and
prepositions explained in terms of conjectural English translations or
interchanged according to the whim of the interpreter. Comparative grammar
has thrown a flood of light on 	the real meaning of New Testament forms and
idioms. New Testament writers are no longer explained as using 	one
construction “for” another. New light has come also from the papyri
discoveries in Egypt. Unusual Greek 	words from the standpoint of the
literary critic or classical scholar are here found in everyday use in
letters and business and public documents. The New Testament Greek is now
known to be not a new or peculiar 	dialect of the Greek language, but
the very lingo of the time. The vernacular Koiné, the spoken language of the
day, appears in the New Testament as in these scraps of Oxyrhynchus and
Fayum papyri. There are 	specimens of the literary Koiné in the
papyri as also in the writings of Luke, the Epistles of Paul, the Epistle to
the Hebrews. A new Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament
will come in due time which will 	take note of the many startling
discoveries from the Greek papyri and inscriptions first brought to notice
in their bearing on the New Testament by Dr. Adolf Deissmann, then of
Heidelberg, now of Berlin. His Bible 	Studies (Translation by Alexander
Grieve, 1901) and his Light from the Ancient East (Revised Edition
translated by L. R. M. Strachan, 1927) are accessible to student unfamiliar
with the German originals.
	There is no doubt of the need of a new series of volumes today in
the light of the new knowledge.
	

Do a couple Google searches on both of the men using quotes around the names
and notice the info that comes up.


Here are the Logos links:
Vincent: http://www.logos.com/products/details/1688
Robertson: http://www.logos.com/ebooks/details/rwp


Thanks,
Wilson Hines
My Blog: www.wilsonhines.com
 

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Hi,
I have an opportunity to buy M.R.Vincent's "Word Studies in the New
Testament". Does anyone know this book? Is it helpful or not?
Thanks,
Sarah Groves

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