tameion: scatological?

Nichael Lynn Cramer nichael at sover.net
Thu Jul 2 08:48:53 EDT 1998


At 11:37 PM -0400 7/1/98, Jim West wrote:
>In Matthew 6:5 Jesus tells his disciples to go onto the "tameion" to pray.
>Moulton/Milligan define this as "storeroom", which is, I suspect, a
>legitimate rendering.  But the word also has another meaning: privy.
>
>[...]

This is an interesting question.  But I have an archaeological question:
Would such a privy have been an "inner" room?

Most of the description of contemporary houses (as well analogous modern
arrangements, to which I can attest from many visits to various cousins as
a child) such "necessary rooms" are typically _not_ in the midst of the
house --if indeed connected to the house at all  (cf the discussions about
the location of the "latrines" at Qumran)

Nichael

Nichael Cramer
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