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Greek lexicographical notes : a critical supplement to the Greek-English lexicon of Liddell-Scott-Jones
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ISBN: 3525251726 9783525251720 Year: 1982 Volume: 74 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht


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Greek lexicographical notes : a critical supplement to the Greek-English lexicon of Liddell-Scott-Jones
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ISBN: 3525257295 9783525257296 Year: 1975 Volume: 45 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,


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A Concordance of the Qur’an
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ISBN: 0520342615 Year: 1983 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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From the Foreword This Concordance of the Qur'an in English satisfies a paramount need of those-and there are millions of them-who have no command of the Arabic language and yet desire to understand the Qur'an. The benefit derivable from English translations of the Sacred Book is, in principle, limited because, first, the Qur'an is not a "book" but a collection of passages revealed to Muhammad over a period of about twenty-three years and, second, because the Qur'an is not really translatable. This does not mean that the Qur'an should not be translated. It does mean that translations lose much in tone and nuance, let alone the incommunicable beauty, grandeur, and grace of the original. The main distinction of Hana Kassis's concordance, in my view, is that it utilizes the semantic structure of Arabic vocabulary itself in revealing the meaning of the Qur'an on any given issue, point or concept. A reader who looks in the index of this concordance for a word which he has encountered in reading an English translation of the Qur'an-the word pride, for example-is directed immediately to the roots of the Arabic, Qur'anic terms for pride. At tne entries for these Arabic roots, all the derivative forms are shown, and the verses of the Qur'an in which they appear are there listed in translation. I am confident that any person who is sincerely interested in understanding the Qur'an and appreciating the nuances of its diction and shades of its meaning can satisfy his need more fully with this book than in any way short of developing a real command over the Arabic language itself. -Fazlur Rahman, Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Chicago


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Selected poems of Gregory of Nazianzus : I.2.17, II.1.10, 19, 32 : a critical edition with introduction and commentary
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ISSN: 00851671 ISBN: 9783525252871 3525252870 3666252877 Year: 2009 Volume: 177 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht,

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St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four poems (I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32). The commentary is primarily linguistic, but attention is paid to historical and theological matters. The poems' fate in Byzantium is also examined and three Byzantine paraphrases are edited in an appendix.The introduction examines features of Gregory's poetry in general. Gregory was an enthusiastic reader of Callimachus and his use of poetic allusion deserves special attention.

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