Walter Bauer (1)Recensioni

abridged lexicon

Essa é uma edição abreviada de um léxico mundialmente famoso que faz uso integral de toda literatura grega dos tempos do Novo Testamento.Informações inestimáveis estão por essa obra disponíveis ao estudante da Bíblia de forma muito acessível.

Based on Walter Bauer's Griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der Frühchristlichen Literatur, sixth ed., ed. Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland, with Viktor Reichmann, and on previous English editions by W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. W. Danker.

Replaces copy of first ed.

This was used as a textbook during my first year in the M.Div. program and Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. Its thesis is based more on presuppositions than historical reality. See The Heresy of Orthodoxy by Andreas Kostenberger.

The starting place for the modern understanding that early Christianity was diverse and local and that regional doctrinal and administrative unification (in Greece, in Egypt, in Syria, in Rome -- including language barriers and divisions which exist to this day) was a gradual process.

Further scholarship (including taking more seriously the parties and divisions within the New Testament, itself) and added evidence have given Bauer's thesis further depth and detail. This book discusses each ancient local form of Christianity and gives particularity and definition to what is too often smeared into a uniform blur. If we are to take seriously that different gospels writers wrote for different audiences in different locations (and the memory that the apostles each missionized in a separate place) then we must respect the evidence that before wider unifications Christians differed in what they believed, what they read, and how they worshiped.

A helpful reminder that one must always ask "where is this evidence from?" (in addition to "when was it from") while doing history.

(Walter Bauer wrote the New Testament Greek dictionary still used to this day.)

-Kushana

This work is absolutely indispensible if the goal is a realistic grasp of the NT and related material. It has been useful for any language work in additional to the primary texts in question.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who plotted to kill Hitler although he was an ordained Lutheran minister, and in fact was motivated to act as a Christian by plotting to kill Hitler, commented on Romans 13:4 and the state practicing ekdikos (defined as 1. avenger: Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 238; 1. champion; 2. legal representative: Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon, p. 427). You should note that Romans 13:4 is the only verse where the term applies to the state. Every other biblical use of the word refers to God as the avenger and the context refers to the state as a legitimate avenger to "bring (God's) wrath upon the evil-doer" (Bauer, Lexicon, p. 238). The state is a legitimate avenger only in the case of an evil-doer. Bonhoeffer clarifies the verse by stating: "no state is entitled to read into St. Paul's words a justification of its own existence. Should any State take to heart those words, they would be just as much a challenge to repentance for that State as they are for the Church" (The Cost of Discipleship, p. 294). Bonhoeffer means that no State can justify its existence based on this passage, rulers should be "God's minister for the sake of the fellowship of charity" (Discipleship, p. 294). The State should be driven to repentance just as believers are.

The issue for a believer, also in the same context, is in Romans 13:5, suneidesin (conscience). The State for Bonhoeffer, as for many Christians, is what to do when the State is not repentant and in fact evil, i.e., Nazism. Bonhoeffer concluded his righteous act, acting as a faithful God-fearing Christian, was to plot and kill Hitler.

For many Christians our opposition to the State is not quite as dramatic as Bonhoeffer, who eventually was hung for his efforts to kill Hitler, although his point is still valid. Our conscience dictates that we must at times oppose the State. Otherwise, one could argue for example if a Christian lives under a legitimate God-appointed State ruler, such as a Christian living under sharia law, Christians ought to convert to Islam. Surely there are places and times where Christians will live in a non-repentant, evil regime and the duty of the Christian is to resist the regime. Christians must have opposed Roman authorities or Christianity would have had a short existence.

Ἐλευθεριά - Liberty, p. 250 was the opposite of slavery, and for the Christian, was against the bondage of the Mosaic law.

I used the heck out of this thing in seminary, and for some exegisis I did afterwards.

A Lexicon Fit for Years of Study

This lexicon is invaluable for doing Greek word studies.

As a layman struggling to teach myself Greek, I find it a great place from which to launch my Greek word studies. It contains more than 15,000 references to classical, intertestamental, early Christian and modern literature.

This edition contains more elaborate definitions of Greek terms than other lexicons I have seen. The benefit of these, to me, is that it helps give me a fuller sense of the word being studied and helps me to avoid anachronisms.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the lexicon for serious Greek students.

Amazing what one person accomplished in the way of corpus linguistics . . . over a century before any corpus linguistics software was available. A fundamental tool for studying the Greek New Testament.

Self designated as BDAG, this edition is more liberal than the older moderate BAGD. It's attempt at semantic domains still does not match Louw & Nida.

Given to Matthew Hayes - 05/11/2023

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Logos Library

Dictionaries, Bible, Lexicon, N.T.

2nd edition revised and augmented by F. Wilbur Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker from Walter Bauer's fifth edition, 1958.

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