[B-Greek] What makes a good Greek Commentary?

Barry H. nebarry at verizon.net
Mon Apr 20 22:02:46 EDT 2009


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From: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 9:31 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] What makes a good Greek Commentary?


>>1. IT HAS TO BE COMPLETE. A commentary has to give you
help with ALL the diffficult passages. It's frustrating to come
across a difficult word or construction and look it up in several
commentaries and find nothing on it. A good commentary has
to somehow anticipate which passages will cause the reader
trouble and hit them all. It should probably offer a literal translation
of all the really difficult passages.<<

Mark, I think you make some good points.  However, what constitutes a 
difficult passage can be quite subjective.  More than once as a student I 
found myself looking at a commentary or running to the notes appended to a 
particular text, and finding a note on something that I had no problem with, 
but nothing on what I had the question...  :)

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, Classics @ Montclair State University
http://www.montclair.edu/
Classics & Bible Instructor @ The American Academy
http://theamericanacademy.net

http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog




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