XENOI KAI PAREPIDHMOI

Steven Cox scox at Mail.Sparkice.COM.CN
Sun Sep 27 07:37:15 EDT 1998


Sorry Carl I should have given ref.s
XENOI KAI PAREPIDHMOI (Heb11:23)
XENOI KAI PAROIKOI (Eph2:19)
PAROIKOI KAI PAREPIDHMOI (1Pe2:11)

You have put your finger on the spot in citing
METOIKOI ; this is exactly what I am looking
for - to establish whether there is significance
in the above variation and whether there are
different social classes of "aliens". Whether
we can identify our 20th Century paradigms
pilgrim, tourist, immigrant, refugee...

So far have not got anywhere very spectacular
with BAGD, LXX, MM, Louw-Nida and LSJ
But I may not be thinking straight today.
Best regards
Steven





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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
To: Steven Cox <scox at Mail.Sparkice.COM.CN>
Cc: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: XENOI KAI PAREPIDHMOI


>At 9:00 PM -0500 9/26/98, Steven Cox wrote:
>>Would this be "tourists and illegal aliens" or vice versa?
>
>Interesting suggestion; where is it from? I had assumed it was Acts 2 but
>don't find it there. I don't think that either of these words quite fits
>with your suggestions, however. XENOI does mean 'aliens,' 'foreigners,' or
>simply 'strangers,' but there is no suggestion of illegality in it;
>PAREPIDHMOI may mean 'immigrants'--but I wonder whether it might not be
>equivalent to the Attic term METOIKOI, 'resident aliens.' For instance, the
>family of Cephalus, the arms-manufacturer in whose house the dialogue of
>Plato's Republic is held, are 'metics' who have been living in the Piraeus
>for many years; they don't have Athenian citizenship but one of the two
>sons, the orator Lysias, is able to prosecute a certain citizen
>Eratosthenes in the Athenian court for the murder of his brother
>Polemarchus during the regime of the 'Thirty Tyrants' in 404.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics/Washington University
>One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
>Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
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>




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