[b-greek] Re: Fwd: Re: Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon

From: Stephen C. Carlson (scarlson@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Dec 22 2001 - 07:48:32 EST


At 06:15 AM 12/22/01 -0500, Harry W. Jones wrote:
>I appreciate everone's help on my question. And all
>I'm trying to do is find out if anyones knows of
>any "main" definition of Thayer's being incorrect
>due to any discoveries of papyri after Thayer's
>lexicon was published? So far, it looks like according
>to the current consensus that no "main" definition of
>Thayer's is incorrect.

I think you are misreading the consensus. The true
consensus is that Thayer's is so out of date that
no one (if he even owns a copy, which I do not) has
the inclination to go through and compare Thayer's
definitions with BDAG's. Even the websites brought
up by a Google search are unhelpful, because they
tend to be more concerned about his Unitarianism
(alleged) than his lexicography. So, if you want
to personally embark on this project, I commend
you for it, but please do not interpret people's
reluctance to do a lot of painstaking research for
you as an endorsement of Thayer's.

Stephen Carlson
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