Footnote 1 – “Sounding Brass” and Hellenistic Technology

The fullest treatment of the scholarly background is to be found in Hans Conzelmann’s A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1975. For the history of the words involved, the standard source is Liddell and Scott Lexicon in the Stuart-Jones and MacKenzie revision of 1940; virtually all of this material is taken in a condensed form from Stephanus’ Thesaurus in the 19th century Firmin-Didot edition.