[B-Greek] On Thayer and BDAG
Michael Aubrey
mga318 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 17 19:27:21 EDT 2008
If you read Lee's A History of New Testament Greek Lexicography, you'll see quite of few examples of why not only is Thayer wrong at times, but so also is BDAG!
None of the presently available lexicons are a fresh examination of the evidence. They all depend on previous works, which if you look closely, are dependent not only lexicographical work, but on translations. Thayer has glosses that go back to the Tyndale's translation and even all the way back to the Vulgate. BDAG is superior because it uses actual definitions (though at times even Danker is inconsistent).
Mike
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