[B-Greek] Patristic Lexicons?

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Wed Jan 30 00:29:11 EST 2008


Ken,
I have Lampe but do not have Sophocles and thus far (which may not be  
far enough) Lampe has not let me  down. Furthermore, let me quote  
Lampe's raison d'etre:
"The relation of this work to Liddell Scott-Jones demands special  
attention. No word which is well attested in the latter and has no  
particular interest for the reader of the Fathers is included in this  
book. The absence of a word must on no account be understood as an  
indication that it is not used by the patristic authors. In order,  
too, to make more space available for articles of major interests the  
common meanings of any word, already noted by Liddell Scott-Jones,  
are not repeated here unless they are of significance for patristic  
study. Thus a common word to which Liddell Scott-Jones devote a long  
article may appear in this Lexicon with only one, and that an  
unusual, meaning. It must again on no account be supposed that the  
ordinary senses of such a word are absent from these authors and have  
been replaced by another. In all such articles the corresponding  
entry in Liddell and Scott is, as it were, taken as read and this  
Lexicon merely adds certain new information to it. The user of this  
work is, in fact, assumed to have Liddell and Scott by its side."
Al
On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Ken Penner wrote:

> I have Sophocles, and was disappointed. When working through the  
> Greek Pseudepigrapha, I came across some words not in LSJ, but they  
> were not in Sophocles either (I don't have Lampe). Let me ask if  
> you you have come across any word that isn't in Lampe, and I'll  
> check if it is in Sophocles.
>
> Ken
>
> Ken M. Penner, Ph.D. (McMaster)
> Acadia/Greek&Hebrew
> Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic vocabulary memorization software:
> http://purl.org/net/kmpenner/flash
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy Lang
>> Sent: January 26, 2008 7:51 PM
>> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: [B-Greek] Patristic Lexicons?
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have both Sophocles, E. A. Greek Lexicon of the
>> Roman and Byzantine Periods and Lampe's Greek Patristic
>> Lexicon?  I am wondering how Sophocles' compares to Lampe.  I
>> assume (perhaps wrongly) that Lampe is superior.  I have
>> Lampe should I get Sophocles as well.  Is there a significant
>> amount in Sophocles, that isn't in Lampe?
>>
>> thank you
>> Jim Lang
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek B-Greek
>> mailing list B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek
>>
> ---
> B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
> B-Greek mailing list
> B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek



More information about the B-Greek mailing list