[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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