Luke 2:46

Carl Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 5 12:31:37 EDT 1999


On 08/05/99, "Edgar Foster <questioning1 at yahoo.com>" wrote:
> B-Greekers,
> 
> I have researched and contemplated Luke 2:46, finding most explanations
> to be unsatisfactory. Exactly what was Jesus doing in the temple (EN
> TWi hIERWi) when Luke records that the twelve year old was in the midst
> of the teachers AKOUNTA AUTWN KAI EPERWTWNTA AUTOUS?

Without knowing what explanations you have found unsatisfactory, I'll 
simply say that I've always assumed this means that Jesus engaged with the 
legal scholars of the Torah over the meaning of the Law as one of their 
peers. I'm assuming that the sorts of questions might have been the sort 
one finds in the tractate Aboth in the Talmud.




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