[B-Greek] Strong's "numerology"
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jan 31 07:55:13 EST 2008
Hall Harris' "Net Bible Revolution" blog has a discussion this morning
of why Greek and Hebrew language materials from Strong's Exhaustive
Concordance continue to be widely available, promulgated, and utilized
by many students of the Bible, despite the fact that Biblical language
scholars certainly do not recommend them. The answer is pretty much
what you'd expect: they are (for good reasons) long since out of
copyright and therefore free for use to any comer, while the better
recommended lexicographical works in Greek and Hebrew are copyrighted
and by no means inexpensive. What Harris explains in this blog entry
is why the NeXtBible site, certainly one of the more useful Bible
study sites on the internet, makes Strong's stuff available to all
comers freely, despite the fact that the site's scholarly stewards do
not recommend it.
The article is entitled, "Lexical tools in the NeXtBible Learning
Environment" and is accessible at
http://blog.bible.org/netbible/content/lexical-tools-nextbible-learning-environment
or
http://tinyurl.com/2g3u3l
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)
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