ARSENOKOITHS/ARRENOKOITHS

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Wed Mar 8 07:56:34 EST 2000


To: Daniel Riaño,

<< The first instances of this word are 1Ep.Cor.6.9 and 1Tim 1.9 ... All 
the testimonies appear to belong to Christian literature, and its use is 
always derogatory. The alleged testimony of Orac.Syb.2.73 is to the verb 
A)RSENOKOITE/W, not to the noun. >>

Why would it be significant that the passages from the Sibylline Oracles 
(2.73) uses the cognate verb rather than the noun? After all, such a verb 
derives from the noun, yes? If one could date this passage of the Sibylline 
Oracles to 2 BCE, it would imply that ARSENOKOITHS is pre-Christian (but 
nonetheless Jewish in origin). But since this passage of the Sibylline 
Oracles was heavily redacted by a Christian, one cannot assume that this 
passage is pre-Christian.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
FWIW: I'm neither a clergy-person, nor an academic (and I have no post-grad 
degrees).




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