Fwd: Re: EKKLHSIA

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jan 15 10:23:39 EST 2001


I think this was meant for the list; I should note that the comments
actually cited below were not mine but those of Alan Thomas; as I've
already indicated, I don't agree in the least that the church was not a
"Jewish" thing in the early days; and in fact, I think that the earliest
real missionaries were Hellenistic Jewish Christians who already spoke
Greek.

>From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos at hotmail.com>
>To: cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
>Subject: Re: [b-greek] Re: EKKLHSIA
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:27:17
>
>
>>From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>>Reply-To: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>>CC: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>>Subject: [b-greek] Re: EKKLHSIA
>>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:49:57 -0600
>>
>
>> >Could it be because SUNAGWGH was almost universally
>> >thought of as a Jewish word, while EKKLHSIA enjoyed a
>> >universal, non-Jewish connotation of a gathering of
>> >people united by membership?
>> >
>> >I would think that in the first century, SUNAGWGH
>> >would bring to mind a Jewish worship place, while
>> >EKKLHSIA would bring to mind a picture of a gathered
>> >people, regardless of their national affiliation.
>> >
>Carl,
>
>  I just wanted to point out that SUNAGWGH does appear in  the NT in James
>2:2 in reference to the Christian community and is translated "assembly" in
>the NASB. My take on this is that EKKLHSIA denotes a 'calling out' and would
>probably suit the Christian worldview much better than SUNAGWGH. Best
>regards,
>
>                                                Tony Costa
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Carl W. Conrad
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