The structures of Gal 2:4 and 2:6
Moon-Ryul Jung
moon at sogang.ac.kr
Tue Apr 23 20:44:30 EDT 2002
> > [Moon] The difficulty with this interpretation is that the meeting
> > described at Acts 15 is a public conference, while the meeting described
> in Gal 2 is
> > a private one.
>
> I see no problem or discrepancy. Gal 2:2 talks about a meeting with the
> recognized leaders which would be the apostles and elders of the church.
> Acts 15:6 says that Paul and Barnabas met with the apostles and elders to
> discuss the matter, after the initial meeting in a larger circle. It is
> quite understandable that the initial meeting in Jerusalem involved a
> welcome by a larger circle and a report to them (v. 4). During that larger
> meeting, the question about circumcision was again raised by some Pharisees
> in Jerusalem (v. 5). The leaders decided that the issue was too hot to
> discuss in the large meeting, so they met privately, as v. 6 tells us.
>
[Moon]
I thought that Acts 15:6-21 describes a public meeting. In verse 15:12, it
says:
ESIGHSEN DE PAN TO PLHQOS, which RSV renders as "the whole assembly kept
silent". Doesn't the presence of "the whole assembly" indicate that it
was a public meeting? Do you take PAN TO PLHQOS to refer to all the
members
of the private discussion?
> > [Moon] The function of DE as the indicator to flashback and background
> > comment
> > is what I never paid sufficient attention to. But "flashback and
> > background
> > comment" seems to be too strong. I thought that DE describes simply
> > different aspects to the theme being developed by the preceding discourse.
>
> No, DE has a number of different discourse functions, all somehow related to
> the function of indicating a shift or change. If you have Levinsohn's book
> on Greek discourse, several sections deal with DE. Section 5.4.1 is about
> background material introduced by DE. (I could also send you one of my own
> little discourse studies on this.)
>
Would you please give me a full citation of Levinsohn's book?
I would be happy to get a copy of your paper. Thanks.
Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
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