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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from...

persecuted the prophets of Yahweh (3 Km 16–4 Km 9), and who was also addicted to whoredom and magic (4 Km 9:22). Hence the name was applied to a woman who endangered orthodox teaching within the Christian community at Thyatira Rv 2:20. ESchürer (Weizsäcker Festschr. 1892, 39–58) considers that the name refers to a prophetess of the temple of the Chaldaean Sibyl in that city. Zahn, in Einl.3 II 620ff and in his comm., prefers the rdg. γυναῖκά σου and takes it to mean the bishop’s wife.—S. Kraft,
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