[B-Greek] Etymology of Greek Words
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 1 20:15:50 EDT 2006
On Oct 1, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Mark Spitsbergen wrote:
> I am looking for additional resources to more
> thoroughly and objectively understand the meaning of Biblical Greek
> words.
> For example, I have benefited immensely from the etymological studies
> offered by Jacob Milgrom and others who have written for the Anchor
> Bible
> Series, especially with respect to the Hebrew language. If anyone
> knows of
> other resources that I can make use of for Biblical Greek, I would be
> appreciative.
Mark,
J.Barr is still worth reading although the book is nearly half a
century old.
Biblical Hebrew philology or more specifically lexical semantics
tends to employ etymology to a greater extent than NT Greek. There
are good reasons for this. The database for the biblical Hebrew
lexicon is far more limited than for ancient Greek. A good
introduction to the topic is the second edition of:
M. Silva, Biblical Words and their Meaning: An Introduction to
Lexical Semantics.
Silva is somewhat dated (1st ed. 1983). A more current look a the
subject using a different theoretical framework is
TOWARDS A NEW DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL HEBREW BASED ON SEMANTIC DOMAINS
Reinier de Blois United Bible Societies Woerden (Utr.), The Netherlands
http://www.sdbh.org/framework/index.html
Click on the two SBL papers on the left hand side of the page.
IMHO, R. de Blois is light years ahead of Jame Barr.
Elizabeth Kline
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