The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

RR 2010/303 The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Frederick William Danker, with Kathryn Krug The University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL and London 2009 xi + 390 pp. ISBN 978 0 226 13615 8 £38; $55

Keywords Christianity, Dictionaries

Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011077066

Scholarship moves on and new approaches or new interpretations are constantly being presented to us. That applies even to ancient subjects where we might have thought the exhaustive research of the great nineteenth and twentieth century scholars had left little or nothing to improve on. That was an impression I had as a student, but one that was quickly dispelled by my university tutors. So it is too with New Testament Greek. Recently I reviewed an updated Compact Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (House, 2008) (RR 2010/53), now I have an entirely new work, The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. I shall not waste time comparing or contrasting the words "compact" and "concise" in the context. Suffice it to say that the same ground, obviously, is covered, each it seems as...