[B-Greek] Strong's "numerology"

Eric Inman eric.inman at wescorpflex.com
Thu Jan 31 08:52:09 EST 2008


Carl, thank you for referring the article to us.

After reading the article, my first question is what level of funding (rough
order of magnitude) would be necessary either to buy the desired rights from
copyright owners or to commission new works. I'm also wondering what efforts
there may be or have been to bring together some sort of consortium of
interested parties, private and institutional, to fund something like this.
I'm not clear on whether the Net Bible is representative of this type of
approach or not. It seems like there is a tremendous loss, financial and
otherwise, in having so many budding scholars starting off in the wrong
direction. It also seems like there would be enough interested parties that
the shared cost would not be very large for anyone.

Does anyone on the list have more information about this type of thing?

Eric Inman

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Subject: [B-Greek] Strong's "numerology"

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-envi
ronment
or
http://tinyurl.com/2g3u3l

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)

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