Is adding this 1,114 vol Greek & English Collection really that useful if you don't understand Greek at all?
https://www.logos.com/product/9940/perseus-classics-collection
One reason I am thinking this is my current library is only 663 resources.. So what do you think?
Hi Lee
It really depends - in my view - whether you would find any of the resources useful. Note that a lot of them are available in English translation as well.
A lot of people who ordered them when they first came out - and didn't really have any use for them - found they cluttered up their library and requested they be removed.
One reason I am thinking this is my current library is only 663 resources.
That's isn't a reason, in my opinion, to get resources which are of no value to you.
Graham
It all depends on your interest and background. For layman or pastor I dont find it much usefull. For academic and Greek studies, one will find some beneficial material.
don't do it.
the bigger the numbers doesn't mean you have a better library..
the amount of useful resources is
I'm pretty much in agreement. It is not that useful and tends to clutter things. I am on who "purchased" it and have hid it so it doesn't clutter anymore.
Jim
Hi Graham
Thanks, I was thinking of adding them but I don't want to slow system because of something I may not use. But I was also thinking of the English translations also.
After thinking more it may be best not to add them.
Like I told before, it all depends what you are using for. I created another account for myself and placed it there. In that way it doesnt clutter my library. I would just give one example why it was useful to me as a primary resource, when I was writing the background about Galatians:
"Caesar, when informed of these matters, fearing the fickle disposition of the Gauls, who are easily prompted to take up resolutions, and much addicted to change, considered that nothing was to be intrusted to them; for it is the custom of that people to compel travelers to stop, even against their inclination, and inquire what they may have heard, or may know, respecting any matter; and in towns the common people throng around merchants and force them to state from what countries they come, and what affairs they know of there. They often engage in resolutions concerning the most important matters, induced by these reports and stories alone; of which they must necessarily instantly repent, since they yield to mere unauthorized reports; and since most people give to their questions answers framed agreeably to their wishes."
Caesar, C. Julius. Caesar's Gallic War Harper's New Classical Library, Caesar, Gal. 4.5. Medford, MA: Harper & Brothers, 1869.
I would just give one example why it was useful to me as a primary resource, when I was writing the background about Galatians:
How was that quote useful for Galatians? Gauls lived in present day France; Galatians lived in present day Turkey.
"GAULS <golz> ([Γαλάται, Galatai]): Galatia in Asia Minor is literally the Gallia of the East; its inhabitants are called Galli by Roman writers, just as the inhabitants of ancient France are called Galatai by Greek writers."
Orr, James, ed. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: 1915 Edition. Albany, OR: Ages Software, 1999.
"In 278 B.C., three tribes of Gauls from Europe migrated across the Hellespont and eventually settled in central Asia Minor in a region that was called Galatia, containing tribal capitals in Pessinus, Ancyra and Tavium. The name Galatians, or Gauls, (Galatai) applied to Celts wherever they happened to live in Europe or Asia Minor."
Scott, J. M. “Galatia, Galatians.” Edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter. Dictionary of New Testament Background: a Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
"GAULS [Gk Galatai (Γαλαται)]. Var. GALATIANS. Cited in 1 Macc 8:2 as the name of a people who were defeated and brought under subjugation by the Romans and in 2 Macc 8:20 (here usually rendered “Galatians”) as opponents of the Macedonians in Babylonia. It was the Romans who gave them the name by which we know them—Gauls [Lat Galli]. This Indo-European group from central and S Europe, also known in Greek literature as Celts [Gk Keltoi], was among the peoples who invaded Italy and other lands to the S in the 3d century B.C.E. A large number also went to Asia Minor where they settled in the region of Phrygia, later called GALATIA by the Romans."
Kampen, John. “Gauls.” Edited by David Noel Freedman. The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
