The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words
Does anyone own The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words? If so I have 3 questions. How does it line up to BDAG and LSJ for Greek? Does it have an entry for the Greek words Love and Logos? Does it work like a lexicon in Logos?
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I guess you read the other thread on this resource.
Your best bet is to look at the samples at the bottom of the product page. The articles have good depth.
A reviewer however posts another review, noting the problem of indexing by english word ... which word? It does have the advantage of right-clicking an english word, and the dictionary being included in the right-click lookup section. I have my AYBD, Oxford English etc there also.
I'd think it a good addition when OL is not critical eg TDOT and TDNT type lexicons. It's not in the same ballpark as BDAG or LSJ, as technical lexicons.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Does anyone own The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words?
Just recently bought it.How does it line up to BDAG and LSJ for Greek?
You can't compare it to those (and the preface explicitly states that it can't and doesn't want to replace real, exhaustive lexicons like BDAG). BDAG is the gold standard for a biblical Greek lexicon (LSJ being the lexicon of choice if you were to go for classical Greek). The Baker Dictionary compares to Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary - very similar organization and content, I think - and the older Vine's Complete Expository DictionaryDoes it have an entry for the Greek words Love and Logos?
It does have an entry on love, of course. Several pages long, discussing Hebrew (ahab and ahaba) and Greek words (agape/agapao and phileo). Interestingly, there's another entry for Loving-Kindness (Hebrew word hesed).
The entry on logos is contained in the Greek-English lexicon that is contained within the Dictionary, but unfortunately not indexed. It reads
3056 (3364) λόγος logos (n.) word; message; speech, language; matter, thing; statement, report, announcement (330×) | WORD
gives a number of glosses to indicate the semantic range and tells you that logos has the Greek Strongs number 3056, the GK-number 3364, occurs 330 times in the Greek NT and that more info is to be found in the dictionary article "Word" (which is multiple pages long, discussing a number of Hebrew words as well as logos and rhema).
Does it work like a lexicon in Logos? No, currently it does not, organized by English headwords and lacking an index like Greek Headwords, Strongs or GK, even though all of this information is in the book.
Have joy in the Lord!
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The Baker Dictionary compares to Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary - very similar organization and content, I think - and the older Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary
Does it work like a lexicon in Logos? --->
No, currently it does not, organized by English headwords and lacking an index like Greek Headwords, Strongs or GK, even though all of this information is in the book.
When responding to an earlier query, these comparisons (and its Subject matter) had made me think that Baker had been intended as a lexicon.
Dave
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