[B-Greek] Philo

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Wed Sep 21 10:19:04 EDT 2005


On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Wayne Leman wrote:

> My son-in-law is a grad student at Hebrew Union College in  
> Cincinnati. His
> roughest class this semester is reading the Greek of Philo. (Koine  
> Greek is
> quite easy compared to Philo, he says.) He finds that L-S and  
> Perseus don't
> have all the forms in Philo. If anyone on the list has ideas for other
> lexical resources, please contact me. My wife and I are with our  
> son-in-law
> and daughter now. We helped them welcome the birth of their first  
> child, our
> #6 grandchild, last week.

Well, Wayne, a grandchild sounds considerably more exciting than  
Philo, although Philo's both difficult and fun.

I don't quite understand a difficulty in recognizing forms -- if  
we're talking morphology -- in Philo; there may be difficulty  
recognizing a root or verb-stem, and that is indeed a matter of  
lexicology. I assume that your son-in-law has already checked Torrey  
Seland's web-site with an exhaustive list of available web-resources  
(http://www.torreys.org/bible/philopag.html). I found personally that  
LSJ and BDAG --and yes, better add LEH for LXX stuff) pretty  
adequate; I know of one other resource that I have occasionally found  
useful for reading Hellenistic Greek, and that is Sophocles' Roman  
and Byzantine Lexicon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ 
1417947934/qid=1127312201/sr=8-1/ 
ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-4981604-5173719?v=glance&s=books&n=507846).

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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