[B-Greek] TDNT: Cautionary Notes?

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Thu Jan 5 16:51:10 EST 2006


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From: "Stephen Baldwin" <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] TDNT: Cautionary Notes?


> 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.

Getting 10 reasonable folks together does not guarantee 10 resonable positions.

As long as you are able to distinguish the the theological commentary from the 
lexical work, you should be fine.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Urban Theological Studies
         Philadelphia, PA
http://www.cuts.edu
Visiting Faculty, Reformed Theological Seminary
         Washington, D.C.
http://www.rts.edu/campuses/washington_dc/index.cfm

And me:
http://mysite.verizon.net/nebarry/
http://my.opera.com/BarryHofstetter/blog/

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