# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S652
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652 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

In its second meeting the Committee agreed that it would be 4
desirable to enlarge its membership. Dr. Behnken therefore was ;
asked to enlarge the Committee. An invitation for suggestions as. 4
to suitable research projects was inserted in the church papers.
The Committee also agreed to develop a project brief for more
expeditious handling of projects suggested and recommended to it. .4

The enlarged Committee, including Professor Martin Coyner: J
and Pastor Roger Sommer, met on December 6, 1948, to consider ;
the proposed project brief and to take up certain of the recom- : |
‘mendations and suggestions brought before the Committee. A re-
vised project brief was adopted by the Committee at this meeting.
This brief was sent to every person and group which had re-
sponded to the notices in the church papers. 4

A total of 46 projects have received the attention of the Com- .
mittee. Of these the following 11 have been approved: ;

1. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

This recommendation came to the attention of the Committee
through the faculty of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and also
by way of a suggestion made by Pastor William F. Beck of
St.Louis. The proposal, as originally submitted, envisioned a
straight translation of a third (1937) edition of Bauer’s Woerter-
buch. Further inquiry, however, revealed that a fourth edition
of this work would soon be available and that the University of
Chicago had negotiated for the rights of translation to the new
edition. ;

From later developments it became evident that if a Greek-
English lexicon of the New Testament were to be produced, it
would require a total of four years of concentrated effort and con-
tinuous research by a group of responsible and reputable scholars.
This whole project was put under the direction of Dr. William
Arndt of Concordia Seminary. His staff is headed by Dr. F. W.
Gingrich of the University of Chicago. The Committee on Allocat-
ing C.T.O. Funds for Scholarly Research set aside a total of
$80,000 to this project. This sum includes salaries for an ade-
quate staff, the salary of a part-time substitute for Dr. Arndt
at the Seminary, and the price of publication. To implement this
project a contract was drawn up between the University of Chi-
cago and Synod. This contract was signed by both parties on
November 30, 1949.

_  & A Luther Anthology

The Pastoral Conference of greater Milwaukee and the faculty 4
of Concordia College in that city submitted a suggestion for the *
preparation of selections, in translation, from Luther’s major
writings. This project involved the allocation of the sum of