[B-Greek] Preferred Lexicon

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 29 22:20:02 EST 2007


I will repeat what I have said before:  If you do not have BDAG, go sell your first-born child and buy it.  If you made a good deal and have money left over then buy LSJ.
 
george
gfsomsel
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Hugh Donohoe Jr. <justusjcmylord at yahoo.com>
To: blist greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:25:11 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Preferred Lexicon

I found this comment by a professor on a review of
BDAG. I was just wondering if others shared his
opinion?

"As far as how this lexicon competes with others, I
offer this opinion. The classical lexicon by Liddell
and Scott remains the best lexicon even for New
Testament. My reasons are as follows. First, the
definitions offered in Liddell/Scott are so precise
that I have never found them to be wrong and seldom
found them inadequate. The men who put it together had
a masterful knowledge of Greek. Second, Liddell/Scott
gives words definitions that the student can memorize,
unlike Danker, which still provides too wide a range
of semantic possibilities (often entrees are clouded
with dozens of possible meanings, none of which are
truly necessary if a student has a basic definition
with which to work). Third, with Liddell/Scott, one
can see what the word meant in classical writers and
can see how it developed in the Hellenistic period." 


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