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  • From: "Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Good Lexicon?
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:14:19 -0500


The only lexicons in which no-one "can detect an occasional
deficiency" are lexicons which no-one has read. Don't spoil them by
reading them! ;-)

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Good Lexicon?
Author: <data7201 AT aol.com> at Internet
Date: 29/03/2000 10:12


Great day to all,
This is a quote from the book:
"From Exegesis to Exposition --A Practical Guide to Using Biblical
Hebrew"pg.15 par.5:
"On the other hand, one can detect an occasional deficiency in K-
B's definitions and handling of semantic categories. For example, the entry
on ( ) "spirit of the dead" (p.20), fails to recognize that the term can
have three distinct senses or that it refers to a ritual pit in 1Samuel 28:7
(see TDOT, 1:133). The glosses 'rebuke, threat" are not strong enough for
the noun hrfg in theophanic contexts where it refers to Yahweh's loud shout
or battle cry ( see TDOT, 3:49-53 ). The entries for "Father", and "Love",
do not adequately reflect the covenantal nuances these terms often
possess.(Isa. 9:5, placed by K-B under Category 7, should appear under
category 3 or 4. See pp.1-2.) The discussion of (dsH,hesed pp.336-37) needs
to be revised in light of K. Sakenfeld's and Gordon Clark's research of the
term"........ie.

Now, my question is:
Is this just the author's opinion of the Lexicon, or is this the consensus
of most scholars? Is this a good lexicon to use?

Thanks
Tony Starks :-)




  • Good Lexicon?, Tony Starks, 03/29/2000
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Good Lexicon?, Peter Kirk, 03/30/2000

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