[B-Greek] text questions and recommendations
James Spinti
JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Mon Feb 11 09:38:45 EST 2008
Yes, to both; people love it because it is out of copyright. But, it
appears that the early version of Abbot-Smith is out of copyright in the
US, so perhaps it will be making an appearance on the web. It would be a
vast improvement over Thayer's and Strings!
James
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Madden
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:12 PM
> To: Mark Lightman
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] text questions and recommendations
>
>
> 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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