Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht - Analytical Lexicon of the Greek Bible

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Ok, I am not posting book finds here as a matter of course any more but this has me intrigued.
I would love to know if anyone has any more information on this that would help justify the ridiculous Brill price! The inclusion of Septuagint information as well as New Testament is a nice feature; hopefully they release some screenshots/photos of the entries. It would be interesting as well to see how much information they give in the English definitions and whether they are adopting the definitions from other works or if they have their own
https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlag ... icle/58127
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Are paper-based analytical lexicons particularly useful compared to digital resources? To me, digital resources are easier to carry, more likely to be with you when you need them, and more suitable to actually learning the forms as you become exposed to them.

I doubt that I have used ANY paper-based analytical lexicon in the last 5 years, maybe 10 years.

BUT I haven't seen this one. There are ways a particularly analytical lexicon could be good, e.g. if it were part of a systematic morphology that really helped people master the forms, not just look up a word. But even there ... wouldn't you prefer a digital tool that did the same?
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Jonathan Robie wrote: December 29th, 2022, 6:48 pm Are paper-based analytical lexicons particularly useful compared to digital resources? To me, digital resources are easier to carry, more likely to be with you when you need them, and more suitable to actually learning the forms as you become exposed to them.
... But even there ... wouldn't you prefer a digital tool that did the same?
Definitely agree that digital is better than paper; I would say even more so in an analytical lexicon where a search feature for a form is a real help. That said, I have used paper lexicons where a digital copy doesn’t exist yet (e.g. before the Brill lexicon was released digitally). I would be hard pressed to justify this one though without seeing some super useful information in it first
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I found that amazon has a preview for the kindle version here. Somewhat puzzled about who they see as the audience given software such as Logos and Olivetree and Accordance etc. Especially for this price
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Analytical-Le ... C73&sr=1-2
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