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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...

fig tree, ficus carica (Zohary, Plants 58f), much cultivated because of its sweet fruit, also growing wild Mt 24:32; Mk 13:28; Lk 13:6f; 21:29; J 1:48, 50; Js 3:12; Rv 6:13 (cp. Is 34:4). Jesus execrates a fig tree Mt 21:19–21; Mk 11:13, 20f; s. Wvan deSandeBakhuyzen, NThT 7, 1918, 330–38; FvanHasselt, NThSt 8, 1925, 225–27; SHirsch, NThT 27, ’38, 140–51; ARobin, NTS 8, ’61/62, 276–81 (Mi 7:1–6); HBartsch, ZNW 53, ’62, 256–60.—On the fig tree s. FGoldmann, La Figue en Palestine à l’époque de la Mišna