BIBLICAL GREEK LANGUAGE AND LEXICOGRAPHY

Essays in Honor of

Frederick W. Danker

Edited by

Bernard A. Taylor

John A. L. Lee

Peter R. Burton

Richard E. Whitaker

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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Biblical Greek language and lexicography: essays in honor of Frederick W. Danker / edited by Bernard A. Taylor … [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-8028-2216-9 (alk. paper)

1. Greek language, Biblical. 2. Greek language, Biblical — Lexicography. 3. Bible — Language, style. I. Danker, Frederick W. II. Taylor, Bernard A. (Bernard Alwyn), 1944-

PA695.B53 2004

487′.4 — dc22

2003063073

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Frederick W. Danker

Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments

Peter R. Burton and Bernard A. Taylor

Abbreviations

A Brief Biography of Frederick W. Danker

Peter R. Burton

Lexical Evolution and Linguistic Hazard

Frederick William Danker

Remarks of an Outsider about Bauer’s Wörterbuch, BAGD, and BDAG, and Their Textual Basis

Rykle Borger

Look It Up. It’s in BDAG

John H. Elliott

A Review of BDAG

Terry Roberts

The Present State of Lexicography of Ancient Greek

John A. L. Lee

Greek Electronic Resources and the Lexicographical Function

William A. Johnson

Septuagintal Lexicography

Takamitsu Muraoka

A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament: Reflections and Ruminations

Barclay M. Newman, Jr.

Concordances and the Greek New Testament

Richard E. Whitaker

The LXX Quotations in the LSJ Supplements of 1968 and 1996

Katrin Hauspie

The Use of δράκων in the Septuagint

Erik Eynikel and Katrin Hauspie

Hebrew to Greek: A Semantic Study of σπεύδω for the New English Translation of the Septuagint

Bernard A. Taylor

Linguistic Register and Septuagintal Lexicography

Cameron Boyd-Taylor

Deponency and Greek Lexicography

Bernard A. Taylor

Verbs Perception and Aspect, Greek Lexicography and Grammar: Helping Students to Think in Greek

Randall Buth

Future Directions for Aspect Studies in Ancient Greek

Trevor V. Evans

Aspect Theory and Lexicography

Stanley E. Porter

External Entailment as a Category of Linguistic Analysis

James W. Voelz

Appendices

A. Selected Bibliography of Frederick W. Danker

B. BDAG and Its Precursors

Indexes

Biblical References

Greek Words

Hebrew Forms

Grammatical and Lexicographical Terms

Introduction and Acknowledgments

PETER R. BURTON AND BERNARD A. TAYLOR

Frederick W. Danker is deservedly recognized as one of the foremost Greek lexicographers of our time. No other living biblical scholar has achieved what he has: lived to see the publication of two major Greek dictionaries that he himself edited. While his contribution to BAGD1 was as one of a team of editors, he alone thoroughly revised the entire dictionary to produce what he has suggested should ...

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About Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Danker

Frederick W. Danker is deservedly recognized as one of today’s foremost Greek lexicographers. Unique among contemporary biblical scholars, Danker has lived to see the publication of two major Greek dictionaries that he himself edited. While he was part of the editorial team that produced the second edition of A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, he alone thoroughly revised the entire dictionary to produce the third edition, popularly known as BDAG. Projects like these have considerably advanced New Testament lexicography in the twentieth century and have laid a solid foundation for further lexicographical work in the twenty-first.

Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography celebrates the life and work of Professor Danker. In character with his contribution to Greek scholarship, the essays have been chosen to assist biblical Greek students and their teachers to develop a deeper understanding of aspects of Greek language and lexicography. Among the topics of discussion are the way one discovers the meaning of words, current tools available to students of language, and the approach being used in the latest New Testament and Septuagint Greek dictionaries. The book also features rich footnotes directing students to important Greek language resources, a selected bibliography of Danker’s publications, an appendix listing BDAG precursors, and four indexes: biblical references, Greek words, Hebrew forms, and grammatical and lexicographical terms.

Sure to interest scholars, teachers, pastors, and students, this volume is both a worthy tribute to the career of Frederick Danker and a valuable presentation of the state of the art in Greek and biblical language studies.

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