Holy: Understanding It Better Through Understanding the Word Studies

We live in the age of studies.  You know we do, because you hear all the time on the morning news about this study or that on a new medication or an established supplement to use the most common example.  It can be mind boggling, but it does not have to be.   The same goes for word studies for biblical words.  They don't have to be mind boggling either.  The key is to know how to distinguish between a good word study and a bad word study. 

I am not sure how many word studies have been performed on the meaning of holy, but the number is staggering.  I eventually will have a bibliography that I can publish that will list the vast majority.  What I want to do is save some of the trouble of sifting through all of them and letting you know about the key ones. 

Some of the key ones are these:

Published studies

Wells, Jo Bailey.  A Holy Nation: Israel's Call to Holiness in Canonical Perspective.

Botterweck, TDOT

Gammie

Olyan

Douglas, Mary

Clines, David J. A.

VanGemeren, Willem A.

Kittel, Gerhard.  Theological Dictionary New Testament (TDNT)

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT)

Brown, Colin.  The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. 

Cremer, Hermann.  Biblio-Theological Lexicon of New Testament Greek,


Studies in Pre-Publication (Dissertations, etc.)

Wells, Jo Bailey.  A Holy Nation: Israel's Call to Holiness in Canonical Perspective.






Studies in Progress (Blogs, etc.)

Westlund

Benner

Ross, Allen P.  Old Testament Word Studies: Qadosh



Word studies in General  (How to do a Word Study)

Lee, John A. L.




[This is the very beginning of what I will be an important entry.  I am now going to be able to resume having more time after life events have made things difficult since last spring.  I apologize for all the delays.  Thank you for your understanding.]


Jon