[B-Greek] List of Representative Koine Authors

Ian W Scott iscott at tyndale.ca
Thu Nov 26 14:03:26 EST 2009


The list would have to include Epictetus. I wonder how Atticizing the 
Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus would be? I haven't looked at it for a 
while, but I remember it including such a wide range of popular 
knowledge/legend that it seems a likely possibility to me.

Ian

Louis Sorenson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to build a corpus of Koine authors to
> search for words and expressions in TLG.  Initially, I am looking for a
> short representative corpus.  Perhaps a list like this already exists
> somewhere. I could not find one in the B-Greek archives.  
>
> Bibliotheca Augustana  http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/g_chrono.html  lists authors by
> ages and centuries . The list of authors in BDAG
> (Abbreviations Section 5) gives a list of secular 658 authors with the
> dates and gives separate lists of NT/apocrypha and OT/Pseudapigraphal
> authors. Caragounis in The development of Greek and the New Testament,
> pp.
> 590-614 gives an extensive list of Greek authors including the century
> the author wrote and the name of the work (in English).  I know that
> some authors (maybe only Arrian?) wrote in both Koine and Atticizing
> styles. None of the above give a rating/evaluation of whether the
> work/author is Koine, Atticizing, etc. 
>
>
> I'm also unsure of how the LXX vocabulary and syntax lines up to
> secular Koine. I suppose it must be included but the weight of each
> reading considered on its own merits as to whether it is typical of Greek in general.
>
> So Which ones (authors and/or works) would be best for a corpus search?  
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Louis Sorenson
>
>
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