[B-Greek] Webster's Koine Greek Dictionary

John Wilking jcwilking at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 19 17:13:18 EDT 2008


Randall,

I'm unclear about a couple things.  The "wouldn't...shouldn't"?  And why couldn't you have nice neat translations?

John



--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
> Subject: Webster's Koine Greek Dictionary
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org, "John Wilking" <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 1:55 PM
> > From: John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [B-Greek] Webster's Koine Greek
> Dictionary
> >
> > If we were able to compile a monolingual dictionary, a
> Koine First Century Webster's, couldn't we convert
> it into a bilingual one simply by translating or adding
> translations to certain portions?
> >
> > John C. Wilking
> 
> Your title gives some of your answer. You wouldn't or
> perhaps shouldn't
> have a "Webster's" project.
> 
> Likewise, you probably wouldn't have a neat
> translation, since the way
> the Greek
> words would be self-categorized would likely prove to be
> different from simple
> glossing in another language. Translation can always be
> done, to be sure,
> but it would be trickier than might be imagined at first.
> 
> when I work with Hebrew material in Hebrew, whether
> commentary, lexicon, or
> grammo-syntactical studies, they are different from what
> would be done in
> a non-Hebrew language because of the different assumptions
> that must be
> made about the competence of the audience or the choices
> within the
> language. Hebrew-Hebrew makes certain assumptions about the
> audience and that affects the way things are written.
> I suspect that the same thing would happen in Greek-Greek.
> 
> On the other hand, you may be interested to know that Greek
> itself has a
> (modern) Greek translation of LIddell-Scott.
> Funny we haven't discussed this on list, or have we?,
> 
> I don't own it or have it accessible,
> so I can't say what edition of LS was used or what kind
> of interesting
> differences or redundancies may have occurred in the
> process of production.
> That might make an interesting article, or may already have
> been written
> somewhere, probably in a modern Greek review. I don't
> even remember the
> approximate year of the Greek LS, it might be a hundred
> years old for all I can
> remember. I've seen it, curiously looked through some
> pages, and don't
> remember any specifics.
> 
> 
> ERRWSQE
> Randall Buth
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