[B-Greek] Greek Dictionaries, books and commentaries

Knut Torfinn Øydna studkto at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 6 18:31:22 EDT 2005


Hi.

I'm live in Rogaland. Jeg bur i Rogaland. Where do you live? Hvor bur du?



>From: Arne Halbakken <1stluth at smig.net>
>To: studkto at hotmail.com
>Subject: Greek Dictionaries, books and commentaries
>Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:00:17 -0500
>
>At 12:00 PM -0400 10/6/05, b-greek-request at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>>From: Knut Torfinn ?ydna <studkto at hotmail.com>
>>Subject: [B-Greek] Dictionaries, books and commentaries.
>>
>>1. It took almost 50 years to complete the 10 volume big Theological
>>Dictionary of The New Testament (TDNT) ed. by Kittel. Since then, the 
>>study
>>of greek has develop and the amount of information has increased. 
>>Therefore,
>>probably the words in the beginning of the greek alphabet do not have
>>updated information, since these words probably have been treated first, 
>>by
>>the editor. So can anyone recommend different kind of dictionaries, books 
>>or
>>even web sites, that have such updated information?
>>
>>2. Can anyone recommend a good greek commentary (single or volumes) of the
>>New Testament?
>>
>>Knut. (Norway)
>
>Knut,
>
>The standard New Testament Greek dictionary in English right now is A Greek 
>- English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian 
>Literature, Third Edition, revised and edited by Fredrick William Danker, 
>Licensed by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
>© 1957, 1979, 2000 by The University of Chicago.
>
>I would highly recommend it. I had the second edition in book form but now 
>I use the third edition just in digital form on the computer. It is a lot 
>faster than looking things up.
>
>BDAG is also good for using in working with the Greek of the Apostolic 
>Fathers.
>
>
>If you are interested in Classical Greek, the standard is 
>Liddell-Scott-Jones. It is available in the complete version and an 
>abridged version (which is not as helpful). The large one is available in 
>digital form for Logos and the abridged is available in a number of 
>software packages.
>
>For the Septuagint, I would recommend A Greek - English Lexicon of the 
>Septuagint, Second Edition, Compiled by J. Lust, E. Eynikel, and K. Hauspie 
>with the collaboration of G. Chamberlain.
>© 1992 & 1997 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. This is also available 
>in book form or in digital format.
>
>For the New Testament, you could also consider Greek-English Lexicon of the 
>New Testament Based on Semantic Domains, Johannes P. Louw and Eugene A. 
>Nida, Editors, Copyright © 1988, 1989 by the United Bible Societies, Second 
>Edition. This is available in book format or in digital format.
>
>For a work that is a little older (in the original French) but develops 
>theological themes more, you might consider Theological Lexicon of the New 
>Testament, by Ceslas Spicq, O.P, Translated and edited by James D. Ernest. 
>Copyright © 1994 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. This is available in book 
>format or in digital format.
>
>For another work a little like TDNT but more modern and written from an 
>"evangelical" perspective, you could try New International Dictionary of 
>New Testament Theology, Colin Brown, General Editor, Originally published 
>in German under the title: THEOLOGISCHES BEGRIFFSLEXIKON ZUM NEUEN 
>TESTAMENT, Copyright ©1967, 1969, 1971 by Theologischer Verlag Rolf 
>Brockhaus, Wuppertal. English language edition volume I copyright ©1975, 
>1986, The Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A., and The 
>Paternoster Press, Ltd. Exeter, Devon, U.K. This is available in book 
>format or in digital format with Accordance.
>
>
>If you are just reading through the Greek New Testament and need an aid, I 
>would recommend Max Zerwick & Mary Grosvenor, A Grammatical Analysis of the 
>Greek New Testament, 4th edition, Rome: Editrice Pontifico Instito Biblico, 
>1993. They do a nice job. This is available only in book format.
>
>
>There are a number of good websites but they would not have the resources 
>available in books. There are some lexical aids on the Perseus website. 
>There are some free resources from http://www.textkit.com.
>
>A fellow Norwegian, who moved this year to Stavanger from Volda, if I 
>remember correctly, Torrey Seland has a good website 
><http://torreys.org/bible/>.
>
>Look at Mark Goodacres site at <http://ntgateway.com/>.
>
>You could check out Jim West's website 
><http://web.infoave.net/~jwest/nt.htm>.
>
>Links on these websites will bring you to a number of other websites.
>
>
>If you need more information on any of the above books, let me know.
>
>
>By the way, what part of Norge are you from?
>
>Arne Halbakken

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