[B-Greek] text questions and recommendations

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 23:12:16 EST 2008


Mark --
I have a question about Thayer's -- isn't one of its downfalls that it has
mistakes in it and that it was written before the discovery of the papyrii?
It still might be useful, though. I do not have it; I have the 3rd edition
of BDAG, which I very much appreciate, so am only going on what others have
said about Thayer's. An online Greek translation site I often reference uses
Thayer's (and I'm not sure whether the mistakes are the site's or
Thayer's) but I think they use its definitions because the copyright has
expired.

Sarah
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
On Feb 9, 2008 10:23 PM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Matthew Blair wrote:
>
>  :I received the following texts from one of my priests when he discovered
> that I had started the study of Koine Greek:
>
> UBS 3rd edition of the GNT
>
> BDAG, 2nd edition (I think - I don't see the "A" in BDAG, but it is
> titled:
> A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian
> Literature, and is green and big)
>
> The New Analytical Greek Lexicon (Perschbacher)
>
> An Index to the Revised Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich Greek Lexicon 2nd Edition
> (Alsop)
>
> Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (Metzger)
>
> Since I am a beginner (I *just* started verbs in Mounce's BBG), I haven't
> really used any of these yet except for the GNT when I am reading aloud
> for
> practice.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) As these are all older texts, is there any value in moving to more
> recent
> editions?
>
> 2) If I wanted to pick up the Septaguinta, which text should I buy?
>
> 3) Are there any differences between the UBS GNT and the NA(27 or 28?)?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Matthew"
>
>  Dear Matthew:
>
>  Your Priest did you well by giving you those books.
>  Maybe you should find a Rabbi and tell him you are
>  studying Hebrew. :)
>
>  UBS 3 is BETTER than UBS 4 since it is essentially
>   the same text but has a better,
>  less italicized font.  NA 27 has more variant
>   readings but they are abbreviated and
>  the critical apparatus is very hard to de-code;
>  your UBS 3 is more user friendly and is
>  fine.  Metzger's book is great but is the only
>   one that I think you would want to update.
>  Get Warren Trenchard's Complete Vocabulary
>  Guide to the Greek New Testament, since it does
>  everything Metzger does but
>  includes the complete vocab.  People rave
>   about Bauer's 3rd Edition; I have his
>  2nd and feel it is really overrated; I use my Thayer's
>   just as often, so I would not
>  spend the extra money on the 3rd edition which I''m sure is
>  better, but is way overpriced; It would make
>  more sense for you to get the Intermediate
>  Liddel and Scott.
>
>  I am a big believer in di-glots (not interlinears) so I would
>  get Brenton's LXX.  The
>  font is really small but the book is cheap and his
>  literal crib translation helps you unpack the
>  Greek.
>
>  You now have a great Greek NT library and may God bless you in your
> efforts!
>
>  Mark Lightman
>
>
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