A Book-by-Book Guide to Biblical Vocabulary (3 vols.)

by William R. Osborne; Russell L. Meek; Gregory R. Lanier; William A. Ross

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1 more

Publisher:

Hendrickson

, 2019–2020

Overview

This collection is intended to help students, pastors, and professors who wish to read a particular book in its original language to master the vocabulary that occurs most frequently in the book in question. In contrast to typical vocabulary guides, which present vocabulary words based on their frequency in the Hebrew Bible or New Testament as a whole, these books present vocabulary words based on their frequency in individual biblical books, thus allowing readers to understand and engage with the text of a particular book easily and quickly.

Key Features

• Presents vocabulary words based on their frequency in individual biblical books
• Allows readers to understand and engage with the text of a particular book easily and quickly
• Intended for students, pastors, and professors

Product Details

• Title: A Book-by-Book Guide to Biblical Vocabulary (3 vols.)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Volumes: 3
• Pages: 809
• Resource Type: Introductions
• Topic: Languages

A Book-by-Book Guide to Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary

• Authors: William R. Osborne and Russell L. Meek
• Publisher: Hendrickson
• Publication Date: 2019
• Pages: 200

A Book-by-Book Guide to Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary is intended to help students, pastors, and professors who wish to read a particular book of the Hebrew Bible in its original language to master the vocabulary that occurs most frequently in the book in question. In contrast to typical Hebrew and Greek vocabulary guides, which present vocabulary words based on their frequency in the Hebrew Bible or New Testament as a whole, this book presents vocabulary words based on their frequency in individual biblical books of the Hebrew Bible, thus allowing readers to understand and engage with the text of a particular book easily and quickly.

Meek and Osborne have produced an intelligently conceived and well-executed volume of vocabulary lists for the mastery of Biblical Hebrew. This will enable the second-year student to strategically memorize new vocabulary. For those who have completed elementary Hebrew, this tool is markedly superior to competing vocabulary textbooks.

—Duane Garrett, John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

William R. Osborne (PhD, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as associate professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. He is the author of Trees and Kings: A Comparative Analysis of Tree Imagery in Israel’s Prophetic Tradition and the Ancient Near East (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018) and co-editor of Riddles and Revelation: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018). He has served as editor of Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament and has authored many articles and reviews.

Russell L. Meek (PhD, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at Ohio Theological Institute. He has co-authored and co-edited multiple books, including Trajectories: A Gospel-Centered Introduction to Old Testament Theology (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018) and Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018), along with authoring several articles and essays

A Book-by-Book Guide to New Testament Greek Vocabulary

• Author: Christopher J. Fresch
• Publisher: Hendrickson
• Publication Date: 2019
• Pages: 434

A Book-by-Book Guide to New Testament Greek Vocabulary is intended to help students, pastors, and professors who wish to read a particular book of the Bible in its original language to master the vocabulary that occurs most frequently in the book in question. In contrast to typical Hebrew and Greek vocabulary guides, which present vocabulary words based on their frequency in the Hebrew Bible or New Testament as a whole, this book presents vocabulary words based on their frequency in individual New Testament books, thus allowing readers to understand and engage with the text of a particular book easily and quickly.

The book also includes an appendix listing difficult principal parts for selected verbs that occur in the vocabulary lists and providing other advanced notes for additional words in the lists.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, the adage goes. So it is with reading the Greek New Testament. Chris Fresch has produced a tool for just such a purpose—one that is both sensitive to students’ abilities and accurate regarding glosses. Both are necessary to give students the confidence they need to read the Greek New Testament, one bite at a time.

—Daniel B. Wallace, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary

Christopher J. Fresch (PhD, University of Cambridge) is lecturer in Biblical Languages and Old Testament at the Bible College of South Australia. His primary areas of research are the Greek and Hebrew languages, linguistics, and the Septuagint. He has written several articles on Greek linguistics, Old Testament, and the Septuagint and is co-editor of the book The Greek Verb Revisited.

A Book-by-Book Guide to Septuagint Vocabulary

• Author: Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross
• Publisher: Hendrickson
• Publication Date: 2019
• Pages: 175

This book-by-book vocabulary guide provides an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in more effective reading and study of the Old Testament in Greek, commonly called the Septuagint. Aside from two full-scale specialist lexicons for the Septuagint, no other printed resource exists that provides concise and strategic guidance to the language of this important ancient corpus. With word lists organized by frequency of appearance in a given book or section of the Septuagint, this guide allows users to focus their study efforts and thus more efficiently improve their breadth of knowledge of Koine vocabulary. Furthermore, the vocabulary incorporated into the lists in this guide integrates lower-frequency New Testament vocabulary in a manner that enables the user to easily include or exclude such words from their study. Other key features of this vocabulary guide include carefully crafted lists that allow users to refresh higher-frequency New Testament vocabulary, to strategically study higher-frequency vocabulary that appears across the Septuagint corpus, and to familiarize themselves with the most common proper nouns in the Septuagint. Moreover, each chapter in this guide has been statistically tailored to provide the word lists necessary to familiarize the user with 90 percent of the full range of vocabulary in each book or section of the Septuagint.

I am delighted to see an increasing interest in Septuagint studies, as well as the increase of relevant reference books. The broader the student’s understanding of Greek, the deeper their handling will be of both the LXX and Greek New Testament texts. This vocabulary guide is an essential part in gaining a familiarity with the Greek, and in turn will make reading the LXX more satisfying. The authors wisely divide the Greek words into three categories: those that are common in the New Testament, common words in the LXX (including names), and then the words specific to books of the LXX. By starting with a core vocabulary, the task of learning the vocabulary of specific books becomes less daunting. I highly recommend this guide, both for those engaged in Septuagint studies and for students who want to expand their understanding of the language of the Greek New Testament.

—Bill Mounce, President, BiblicalTraining.org

Gregory R. Lanier is assistant professor of New Testament and dean of students at Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando, Florida).

William A. Ross is assistant professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte, NC).