[B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in Greece?
Vasileios Tsialas
tsialas78 at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 30 13:37:22 EDT 2009
I want
first to explain that in Greece there is a monopoly of the public universities,
the department of the NT studies being under the umbrella of the Orthodox
Church, and these universities of course do not need to promote themselves to
attract students, and this can be one of the factors for both students and
professors to be less productive. Some times political connections determine
who may take a university seat, and not scholarship, since sadly in Greece universities
are a traditional battlefield of political war.
Not surprisingly,
there is only one (very poor) NT lexicon first published in 1910, by the Orthodox bishop Sophronios
Eustratiades, and there is no intention, will and money for
something better to be done. For instance, more than a year ago I discussed a
bit with a very important NT emeritus professor, whom you all know from his
contribution in the formation of the NT critical text, Johanes Karavidopoulos,
for the need of a new NT lexicon, even a translated one. He promised me (because
I am working in a publishing house) that he would try to find professors who would
be interested in such a task, but after many weeks he told me that his efforts
were unsuccessful.
Similarly, I publisher I know proposed the revision (or even
reprint) of a 1850 OT lexicon by Lowndes, the only Hebrew-Greek Lexicon ever made, but he also faced
a complete lack of interest.
Beyond the
NT studies in the two Schools of Theology, we also have the Schools of Philosophy,
which focus on Classical and Modern Greek literature.
Vasileios
Tsialas
Athens,
Greece
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