[B-Greek] Preferred Lexicon

David McKay gontroppo at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 29 23:13:54 EST 2007


G'day Hugh
Please tell us who said this and where we may read the
review.
It seems to me to be a little silly, because words do
not have one basic meaning in Greek, Hebrew or
English. Some homonyms have several discrete meanings,
and you can't say "well, basically the meaning is ..."

I'm very happy with my BDAG, but acknowledge that
Liddell is also not to be sneezed at.

David McKay


--- "Hugh Donohoe Jr." <justusjcmylord at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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