Greek vs Hebrew: A History of the Biblical Languages and Lexicography

How can the history of Greek and Hebrew guide us in interpreting the Bible? In this video, we trace the development of Biblical lexicography and vocabulary across English, Hebrew, and Greek, revealing how lexicons are tailored to specific historical and cultural contexts. Through this exploration, we highlight how the Bible reflects the rich linguistic traditions of these languages.

We also illustrate which dictionaries and lexicons are most useful for accurately interpreting specific texts in context.

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📖 Learn More - Sources and Recommended Reading/Viewing:

Lexicography and Ancient Languages:

Ghil'ad Zuckermann, "Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond" https://amzn.to/xyz
Edward Ullendorff, "Is Biblical Hebrew a Language?" https://archive.org/details/ullendorf...
Robert Rozetko, Ian Young, "Historical Linguistics & Biblical Hebrew" https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/...
John Chadwick, "The Case for Replacing Liddell and Scott" https://www.jstor.org/stable/43646835
The Lexicographical Experiments of Korais and Gazis: https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/de...
Troubles in Post-classical Greek Lexicography, Mike Aubrey 2021: https://koine-greek.com/2021/09/17/tr...

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CHAPTERS:


Introduction - 0:00
Early English Bibles - 1:46
Modern English Bibles - 3:34
False Friends - 5:14
Early English - 8:16
Modern English Lexicography - 11:36
Words, Tokens and Lemmas - 13:26
Hebrew Periodization - 16:22
Ancient Hebrew - 17:42
Hebrew Vocabulary Challenges - 23:27
The Late Bronze Age - 26:36
Archaic & Classical Greek - 29:07
Varieties of Hellenistic Greek - 31:29
Early Greek Lexicography - 34:29
Liddell-Scott-Jones - 37:34
21st Century Lexicons - 39:49
Biblical Greek Lexicons - 42:11
Bauer-Danker-Arndt-Gingrich (BDAG) - 44:12
Digitizing Greek Texts - 47:01
Greek Statics - 49:15
Modern Greek in the TLG - 54:20
The Greek Language Question - 55:50
Modern Greek Lexicography - 57:55
Conclusion - 1:01:08

Corrections:
9:31 - The "Junius manuscript" has a typo (not *Janius)

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