Acts 2:38 -- umwn
Mike Sangrey
mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us
Wed May 3 10:28:20 EDT 2000
Mike Sangrey <mike at sojurn.lns.pa.su> said:
>> Isn't it interesting though, that it is in the practice of community
>> that these cognitive environments are exposed?
"Carl W. Conrad" cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu said:
> Precisely; in the community that Paul sometimes referred to as the
> SWMA IHSOU CRISTOU (it's always struck me as a curious fact that a
> tradition of private mysticism--the very thing that Paul seems in 1
> Cor to be haranguing against--could have emerged out of the NT
> literature), and also, in a somewhat (?!) derivative sense, on
> B-Greek.
Did it "emerge out of the NT literature"; or, did it emerge from the
Hellenistic culture of the time? If I Cor. is battling against it, then
it appears to me to have grown up from somewhere else. I tend to think
the Hebraic culture was highly communal as a community of families and
that Paul was bringing a message directed to the Greek and born from a
Hebrew frame of reference, a Hebrew cognitive environment, if you will.
I feel this is pushing the boundaries of B-Greek, but I would be
interested in any feedback one has regarding any individualistic
tendencies of 1st Century Hellenistic culture. IMO, it would help us in
exegisis and translation to understand a little more fully the cognitive
environment of the GNT writers.
Thanks for everyone's help.
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