Luke 10:13 - Woe?

Joseph Brian Tucker music at riverviewcog.org
Tue Aug 24 12:55:40 EDT 1999


Greetings

OUAI SOI BHQSAIDA

In an effort to capture the color and force of OUAI, the Scholars Version 
of the Jesus Seminar translates OUAI SOI BHQSAIDA "Damn you, Bethsaida!" At 
the expense of trying to be current, the use of "damn" loses, not the sense 
of anger, but certainly the sense of the gravity and pain conveyed by the 
original OUAI. As O. Betz notes such, "vulgarizing" destroys the orginal 
thrust of Jesus' words. (_Theologische Literaturzeitung_ 119 (1994), no. 
11, p. 989).

What is the best understanding of OUAI and can someone provide another way 
to capture the original color and force of the OUAI?

Brian Tucker, M.A.
music at riverviewcog.org
Riverview, MI
http://www.riverviewcog.org



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