[B-Greek] TELEIOS and its cognates

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Mon Nov 21 12:51:01 EST 2005


Norman Goos, a member of this list, has posed to me a question that  
might draw further response from other list-members. He is interested  
in how extra-biblical usage of the adjective TELEIOS and its cognates  
may bear upon the understanding of the way TELEIOS is used in the GNT.

My immediate thought was: it would be useful to be able to search the  
TLG corpus for words in TEL- or TELE- or for any specific form of  
TELEI- ; of course, one would then have to sift through all the hits  
and discern the usage in each instance.

My second idea was to query the LSJ lexicon at the Perseus site for  
words beginning TEL- or TELE- ; the search yields a list of all such  
words in the Perseus database, a quick link to the LSJ entries for  
each word AND a link that brings up a list of all instances of that  
word in texts within the Perseus corpus.

Of course it is easy enough to bring up all instances of the  
adjective TELEIOS in the GNT (I find 19 of them); the question is how  
and to what extent extra-biblical usages going all the way back to  
Homer may have influenced usage of the word in the GNT.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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