anagnwsei

Cindy Smith cms at dragon.com
Fri Sep 4 18:42:37 EDT 1998


I'm curious about the meaning of ANAGNWSEI.  For example,

1 Timothy 4:13 hEWS ERXOMAI, PROSEXE TH AVAGNWSEI,
		TH PARAKLHSEI, TH DIDASKALIA.

NRSV translates this, "Until I arrive, give attention to the public 
reading of scripture, to exhorting, to teaching."

Query:  Does ANAGNWSEI always mean "public reading of scripture" or 
can it mean simply "public reading" ?  Certainly, many of the letters 
read in the New Testament churches did _not_ later become scripture.

Compare 2 Corinthians 3:14  TH ANAGNWSEI THS PALAIAS DIAQHKHS, which 
the NRSV translates, "when they hear the reading of the old covenant,"

Also Acts 8:28  HN TE UPOSTREFWN KAI KAQHMENOS EPI TOU hARMATOS AUTOU 
KAI ANEGINWSKEN TON PROFHTHN hHSAIAN, which the NRSV translates, "and 
was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet 
Isaiah."  Cf 8:28 and 8:32.

Also Acts 13:15  META DE THN ANAGWSIN TOU NOMOU KAI TWN PROFHTWN, 
"After the reading of the law and the prophets,"

Also Acts 23:34 ANAGNOUS DE KAI EPERWTHSAS etc. which the NRSV 
translates, "On reading the letter," etc.

Also Luke 4:16 KAI ANESTH ANAGNWNAI "he stood up to read"

Also Colossians 4:16 KAI hTAN ANAGNWSQH......KAI EN TH LAODIKEWN 
EKKLESIA ANAGNWSQH, etc., "And when this letter has been read among 
you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that 
you read also the letter from Laodicea."

1 Thessalonians 5:27  ENORKIZW hUMAS TON KURION ANAGNWSQHVAI THN 
EPISTOLHN PASIN TOIS ADELPHOIS.  "I solemnly command you by the Lord 
that this letter be read to all of them."

Acts 13:15  META DE THN ANAGNWSIN TOU NOMOU KAI TWN PROFHTWN
		"After the reading of the law and the prophets,"

Compare also Nehemiah 8:8  KAI ANEGNWSAN EN BIBLIW NOMOU TOU THEOU KAI 
EDIDASKEN ESDRAS KAI DIESTELLEN EN EPISTHMH KURIOU KAI SUNHKEN hO LAOS 
EN TH ANAGNWSEI.

  Then English translation as well as the Vulgate is completely 
different, so I can only assume the Hebrew is different.  This is the 
Vulgate:  et legerunt in libro legis Dei distincte et adposite ad 
intellegendum et intellexerunt cum legeretur.

Jeremiah 43:8 (NRSV 36:8) KAI EPOIHSEN BAROUX KATA PANTA hA ENETEILATO 
AUTW IEREMIAS TOU ANAGNWNAI EN TW BIBLIW LOGOUS KURIOU EN OIKW KURIOU. 
 And Baruch son of Neriah did all that the prophet Jeremiah ordered 
him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD's 
house.

Jeremiah 28:63 (NRSV 51:63) KAI ESTAI hOTAN PAUSH TOU ANAGINWSKEIN TO 
BIBLION TOUTO "When you finish reading this scroll,"

Exodus 24:7  KAI LABWN TO BIBLION THS DIAQHKHS ANEGNW EIS TA hWTA TOU 
LAOU, "Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the 
hearing of the people;"

Deuteronomy 17:19; 31:11; Joshua 8:34-35; 2 Kings 5:6-7; 19:14; 22:8; 
22:10; 22:16; 23:2; 2 Chronicles 34:18; 34:24; 34:30; Ezr 4:18; 4:23; 
Nehemiah 8:3; 8:8; 8:18; 9:3; 13:1; Esther 6:1; Isaiah 29:11-12; 
34:16; 37:14; Jeremiah 29:29; 36:6; 36:10; 36:13-15; 36:21; 36:23; 
51:61; Daniel 5:8; 5:15-17.  Matthew 12:3; 12:5; 19:4; 21:16; 21:42; 
22:31; 27:37; Mark 2:25; 12:10; 12:26; 15:26; Luke 4:16; 6:3; 10:26; 
John 19:19-20; Acts 13:27; 15:21; 15:31; 2 Cor. 1:13; 3:2; 3:14-15; 
Ephesians 3:4; Colossians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:27; Baruch 1:3; 
1:14; 1 Maccabees 5:14; 10:7; 14:19; 2 Maccabees 2:25; 6:12; 8:23; 
11:34; 15:39; 1 Es 2:26; 2:30; 3:13; 3:15; 9:41; 9:48; 3 Mac 1:12; 
4 Esdras 14:45; 4 Maccabees 18:11.

Compare hO ANAGINWSKWN "reader" Matthew 24:15; 13:14; 1 Esdras 8:8-9; 
8:19;9:39; 9:42; 9:49

Compare 2 Maccabees 2:25 which uses the word ANAGINWSKEIN "to read" 
apparently but what is the word for reader?  Here is the full passage: 

EFRNTISAMEN TOIS MEN BOULOMENOIS ANAGINWKSEIN PSUXAGWGIAN TOIS DE 
FILOFRONOUSIN EIS TO DIA MNHMHS ANALABEIN EUKOPIAN TASIN DE TOIS 
ENTUGXANOUSIN WFELEIAN.  NRSV:  "we have aimed to please thos who wish 
to read, to make it wasy for those who are inclined to memorie, and to 
profit all readers."





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