[B-Greek] TDNT: Cautionary Notes?
Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 5 15:47:25 EST 2006
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I'm grateful to all those who responded.
Very illuminating and the cautionary advice is heeded. As I was reading some
of the responses and wondering whether I should use my Kittel volumes as
door stops or logs for the fire, I perchance browsed Gordon Fee's book on
exegesis (NT Exegesis 3rd Ed).
II.4 (p92/93): "...check your results with...NT theological dictionaries.
Pride of place goes to:"
TDNT. I just started to laugh. I guess NTG is no different to any other
discipline with rafts of completely contradictory opinions!! Fee too adds
some cautionary advice. So after all that, I will hang on to my Kittel.
As to the amount of shelf space it takes up and the volumes-versus-CD
debate, I would argue that just in case one is ever interviewed on TV, it is
essential to have a backdrop of bookshelves filled with weighty tomes. CDs
may indeed be a technological marvel but are visually uninspiring.
Let us rip down our bookshelves and build bigger ones... [ :-) ]
Regards
Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
>From: Carlton Winbery <winberycl at earthlink.net>
>To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TDNT: Cautionary Notes?
>Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:12:15 -0600
>
> >Bob Fuller wrote:
> >
> >> Jim,
> >>
> >> Where can I find Barr's treatment of "the whole enterprise."
> >
> >I believe its in his book _The Semantics of Biblical Language_. What he
> >criticizes is the word/concept (words contain concepts) fallacy that
>seems to
> >imbue a great deal of the TDNT.
> >
> >Jeffrey
> >--
>Barr's "Semantics of Biblical Language" and also Caird's book on
>semantics are both good reads for students who would move on to
>serious study of Biblical languages. I was fortunate to sit in on
>Barr's lectures on biblical theological (really the posibility of
>"biblical" theology) in 1983. He fielded a question about Kittel and
>admitted that with so many examples of words in context his work did
>not ignore contextual studies as contributory to understanding. What
>Barr criticized most heavily was a misuse of Kittel and the over-all
>impression that the bulk of meaning is gained from etymology.
>
>I would also point out that most of the editorial work on the 10
>volumes was done by Gerhardt Friedriks (sic) after Kittel's death. He
>was much more aware of the need for studying words in context. I
>never write or make presentations on Scripture without consulting
>Kittel (and several others).
>--
>Carlton L. Winbery
>Retired Professor of Religion
>Louisiana College
>318-448-6103
>winberycl at earthlink.net
>winbery at lacollege.edu
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