. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. on the history and requirements of Greek lexicography willbe found most conveniently in Leopold Cohus appendix on the subjectcontributed to Karl Brugmanns Grieclmohe Gframmatiltf Munchen, 1900.—Avery useful book is Hermann Sohbne, Repertoriimi griecMseher Worterver-teichisse und SpeziaUexika, Leipzig, 1907. Me7a Aefi/tov tijs BXXTjcaijs rXwirffijs AvearTj KuvarayTivLSov, ev ASrjvais,1901 fE. (3 volumes so far). * A good beginning among lexicons for school use has been made byHer
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. on the history and requirements of Greek lexicography willbe found most conveniently in Leopold Cohus appendix on the subjectcontributed to Karl Brugmanns Grieclmohe Gframmatiltf Munchen, 1900.—Avery useful book is Hermann Sohbne, Repertoriimi griecMseher Worterver-teichisse und SpeziaUexika, Leipzig, 1907. Me7a Aefi/tov tijs BXXTjcaijs rXwirffijs AvearTj KuvarayTivLSov, ev ASrjvais,1901 fE. (3 volumes so far). * A good beginning among lexicons for school use has been made byHermann Menge, QriecMsch^Deutsohes. Sohulworteriueh, Berlin, 1903.—Forthe scientific lexicographer the most important work is Walther Prellwitz,Mymologucheii Worterhuch der OriecMsehen SpracJie,^ Gbttingen, 1905. * In recent years H. van Herwerden, following an example set by others,has done most towards collecting the new details {Lexicon Oraeemn Supple-torium et Dialeetiewn, Lugduni Batavorum, 1902; Appendix Zexiei Graeei. ., Lugd. Bat., 1904; Nova Addenda ... in the Melanges Moole, Geneve,1905, p. 241 ,,.. —:^-^s^-^^ ? ?? ^. r FUTURE WORK OF RESEARCH 415 it in the inscriptions, papyri, etc.; and the practicalneeds of Biblical students suggest that at the presenttime the more necessary of these two special tasks isthe production of a revised New Testament Lexiconwhich shall promote the work of research withoutceasing to be valuable for purposes of study. The lexicography of the Greek Bible can look backupon a venerable history. Philo of Alexandria, thecontemporary of Jesus and St. Paul, was in allprobability the author of a work explaining theHebrew names in the Septuagint, which was after-wards used by Origen and St. Jerome. Portionsof this earliest lexical tradition made their wayamong the Christian common people at an earlydate, as is shown by a precious papyrus fragment^of the 3rd or 4th century (Figure 62) fromEgypt, now in the Heidelberg Universit
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