BDAG Could Be a Much Bigger Book

by Feb 15, 2010Books, Exegesis, NTScholarship

This is what its entry on ἀγάπη looks like in BDAG, the standard Greek lexicon.

agaphun

This is what it looks like uncompacted, with all of its separate points turned into descended bullets:

BDAGagaph 

It’s like unfolding some incredible origami!

I find I can’t use the information nearly as well when it is not laid out visually this way. I don’t plan to do this for very many more BDAG entries, however…

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