Re: Which LSJ for the LXX

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 11 1996 - 14:20:42 EST


At 6:03 PM 1/10/96, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
> I'm awaiting my copy of he latest, forthcoming Great Scott to appear
>on my door step. In the meantime, I'm trying to borrow either the
>Int. Or Unabridged LSJ for use in preparing some LXX chapters for my
>upcoming doctoral Greek exam (I don't want to buy one now just to pay for
>the new Great Scott in a couple of months). Anyway, I have a source for
>borrowing either the Big Liddell or the Great Scott. Specifically for
>the LXX, is the Int. LS going to be sufficient or would I be better off
>borrowing the more cumbersome Great Scott, unabridged and heavy? Thanks in
>advance for any advice.

Ken, are you distinguishing between the BIG LIDDELL and the GREAT SCOTT?
Whatever it is that you mean, I think you probably ought to use whichever
is "more cumbersome," "unabridged and heavy." The smaller and the
intermediate L&S are reprints of a condensation of the late Victorian L&S,
and they were made to include fundamentally vocabulary of major classical
authors and NT; I don't think they were intended to cover LXX at all. In
what little work I've done with LXX, I've found the intermediate L&S
practically useless: LXX words that ARE found in it are words I already
have no problem with, and words that are unfamiliar just simply don't show
up in the intermediate L&S. So you'd better take the cumbersome heavy
unabridged LSJ--the latest version available for borrowing. I might just
add as a useless addendum comment that I've occasionally found help for an
LXX problem in the old Sophocles Lexicon of Byzantine Greek.

Carl W. Conrad
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