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Frederick William Danker (; July 12, 1920 – February 2, 2012) was a noted New Testament scholar and the pre-eminent Koine Greek lexicographer for two generations, working with F. Wilbur Gingrich as an editor of the ''Bauer Lexicon'' starting in 1957 until the publication of the second edition in 1979, and as the only editor from 1979 until the publication of the 3rd edition, updating it with the results of modern scholarship, converting it to SGML to allow it to be easily published in electronic formats, and significantly improving the usability of the lexicon, as well as the typography. Earlier English-language editions of the ''Bauer Lexicon'' were essentially translations and adaptations of Bauer’s German dictionary into English. Professor Danker’s dictionary was essentially an entirely new work. Professor Danker reportedly worked on the lexicon 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 10 years. ==Career== Professor Danker received his formal training at Concordia Seminary wherein he satisfied requirements for a B.D. degree with a dissertation on the function of the Hebrew word הֶבֶל (hebel) within the book of Qoheleth. He then undertook his PhD studies at the University of Chicago, Department of Humanities, in classical studies, with special interest in Homer, Pindar, and the Greek tragedians, finally writing a dissertation on “Threnetic Penetration in Aeschylus and Sophocles.” From 1954 on, Frederick W Danker taught at the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, when he joined the team of Arndt and Gingrich and helped produce the 2nd edition of BAG, then called ''BAGD''. In 1974, he left with the vast majority of faculty members to form Concordia Seminary in Exile, also known as Seminex. On voluntary dissolution of Seminex 1983, professor Danker chose to go to the Lutheran School of Theology, where he taught until his retirement in 1988. He then began his magisterial work on the ''BDAG'', upon which completion the lexicon was finally released in 2000. Having already produced ''BDAG'' (3rd ed) during his so-called "retirement," he spent his last years preparing ''The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament'' which is not a condensation of ''BDAG'' but an entirely new, although shorter, lexicon of the NT. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick William Danker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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