ANQRWPOS ANQRWPOS
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Sun Sep 17 23:28:16 EDT 2000
At 10:08 PM 9/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Is this --
> 1. a Semitism, possibly for emphasis?
it is a literal rendering of the hebrew "ish ish"... which would best be
translated by "every single man". cf ex 36;4, lev 15;2, 17;3,8,10, ps 87;5,
est 1;8 1qs9;12, 4qcata 1;11. it is a fairly common expression- the
doubling of the noun simply makes emphatic that EACH one is... x.
i think the lxx merely renders this expression woodenly here.
you might want to see what it does with the other biblical references listed
above.
>Also, I was wondering if the NT uses a construction similar
>to this? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that
>resembles it is something like AMHN AMHN in John.
i cant recall one either. the doubled amen of john is, interestingly, an
amphatic construct as well. in rabbinic argument a couple of things
happened... first, the "amen" was declared at the END of a discussion
whereas in john jesus always BEGINS his discourses with it... which in a
sense means that for jesus the matter at hand is settled before anyone else
can say a word about it. second, the amen of rabbinic discourse was
singularly enunciated. jesus doubles it...
i will let you draw your own conclusions about what john is trying to say
about jesus by doing things this way.
best,
jim
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