[B-Greek] What should a lexicon include?

Bryant J. Williams III bjwvmw at com-pair.net
Fri Oct 15 01:29:53 EDT 2010


Dear Carl,

I've thought over this issue of "glossary" or "lexicon" since the thread
started.

It appears that what Michael Palmer has on his site is a more "advanced
glossary." It is not a "lexicon" in the strict since of the term, e.g. BDAG.
Something that is probably a closer to a cross between BDAG or Liddell-Scott
would be preferable. I am almost thinking that a "lexicon"= "QHSAURUS" would be
excellent. There are times where I see an entry and would like to see synonyms
contrasted together, e.g. GINWSKW and OIDA; AGAPH and PHILH.

Regarding the lemma used, it would be the Aorist Infinitive since I think it is
Aorist that is the most common form found in the NT (though I could be wrong on
this). It would be important that certain theological terms/themes from the LXX
be included if possible, e.g. DIKAIOSUNH.

Since there are over 10,000 verses in the NT, it would be nice for the
prepositions be given more extensive detail.

Like I said, "Just some thoughts."

En Xristwi,

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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> That's a question that I raised in response to Micheal Palmer's blog note
> that he had updated the "online lexicon" for his online Hellenistic Greek
> course. Now he's responded to my question and it appears that we may
> have a nice dialogue on some significant issues in Hellenistic Greek
> lexicography. In a sense this is a followup to our recent discussion of
> the Barclay Newman UBS NT "lexicon" that I would prefer to call a
> glossary. A big question here is how verbs, in particular, should be
> lemmatized. Randall Buth has suggested, for instance, that the lemma
> should be the aorist infinitive; I raise additional questions., as does
> Stephen Carlson and Michael Aubrey.  It seems to me that there's grist
> for further discussion in this forum at least as well as in the comments
> section there. Here's the URL:
>
> http://greek-language.com/grklinguist/?p=447
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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