[B-Greek] Fw: Analytical Greek Lexicon

James Tauber jtauber at jtauber.com
Sun Jan 29 18:33:25 EST 2006


Your request leads me to make an important point: the development of  
nice interface for presenting information is only the tip of the  
iceberg above the water. Below the water is all the scholarship that  
has gone on behind the scenes to produce the data.

It might take me a weekend to build an interface to do what you are  
describing IF the information were already available in machine- 
readable form. But getting to that point might take years of  
scholarship.

James
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On 29/01/2006, at 2:24 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:

> James,
>
> While you are experimenting with different functionalities, let me  
> throw out an idea. What I'd like to see is a digital version of  
> something like Alford's Greek Testament including references (but  
> excluding the commentary). So, for example, if I were reading along  
> in 2 Peter and, being familiar with the English text, puzzled over  
> the absence of  PWS in the expression OIDEN KURIOS EUSEBEIS EK  
> PEIRASMOU hRUESQAI (2:9), I could move the cursor over OIDEN and  
> see references to Mt. 7:11, Lk. 12:56, Phil 4:12, 1 Tim. 3:5 and  
> James 4:17 where there are similar uses of OIDA.  Essentially, this  
> would be a lexicon more or less in reverse. Rather than starting  
> with an alphabetized list of words and illustrating the various  
> uses of each one by referencing contexts for each use, this would  
> start with a particular context in which a word or phrase is found  
> and would then reference only other similar uses.
>
> Jeff Smelser
> www.ntgreek.net
> www.centrevillechurchofchrist.org
>




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