[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been replaced by another.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
>>
>>
>>
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