LSJ vs. BDAG

I was hoping some of you with more experience & expertise could outline your preferences for LSJ vs. BDAG. Is one better? Why? Are these really competitive resources or complementary resources? Does one have an advantage for use with Perseus.

Thanks for your insight.

Joe

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Mike Childs

Obviously, BDAG would be better because that is what I used in seminary 100 years ago. No - wait it was only BAG back then. [:S]

I would be very interested in hearing folks compare LSJ & BDAG, too.

Kevin Becker

LSJ is aimed mostly at classical Greek usage. It does catalog Koine usages but, in my limited experience, not very much. It references the Bible some, but not nearly as often as BDAG.

BDAG on the other hand is only Koine. Its purpose is mostly for Christian Greek literature (just look at the long title).

So, for the Persius collection in which the Greek lit is mostly much older than the NT you will want LSJ for the best definitions of usage. Using BDAG would be somewhat analogous to using a modern English dictionary with Shakespearean English (or even older forms of written English). You could get by some but there would be mismatches between what words now mean and what they used to mean.

Paul N

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/278291#Comment_278291

It took me forever to dig this post up, but Mark Barnes generated some interesting data on various dictionaries and lexicons in Logos here

LSJ has a shockingly larger amount of entries than the next 8 combined (including itself in abridged form!)

Clifford B. Kvidahl

I was hoping some of you with more experience & expertise could outline your preferences for LSJ vs. BDAG. Is one better? Why? Are these really competitive resources or complementary resources? Does one have an advantage for use with Perseus.

Thanks for your insight.

Joe

Joe,

BDAG and LSJ are best used together. But when it comes to Perseus, I am going to guess that Perseus will be linked to LSJ right out of the gates. That is my two cents.

Cliff

George Somsel

I was hoping some of you with more experience & expertise could outline your preferences for LSJ vs. BDAG. Is one better? Why? Are these really competitive resources or complementary resources? Does one have an advantage for use with Perseus.

Thanks for your insight.

Joe

Definitely complementary. LSJ covers the range of Greek usage from early to late while BDAG is geared to NT and the Church Fathers. One is therefore general while the other is specific. There are times, however, when I think LSJ's treatment of a particular NT word is preferable to BDAG's.

Otis Gouty

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/278334#Comment_278334

Becker, echoed more, or less, by others is right on the money.

David Ames

I was hoping some of you with more experience & expertise could outline your preferences for LSJ vs. BDAG. Is one better? Why? Are these really competitive resources or complementary resources? Does one have an advantage for use with Perseus.

Thanks for your insight.

Joe

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Paul N

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/278401#Comment_278401

It certainly sold me on the LSJ in anticipation of all of the free pre-pubs!

J.R. Miller

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/278407#Comment_278407

thanks for the input everyone and for the link to Mark's post. I appreciate the insights.