Luke 18:11

Randall Buth ButhFam at compuserve.com
Thu Aug 8 07:36:15 EDT 2002


shalom 

>>the actual gloss given for the phrase in Luke is "he uttered a prayer to
>>himself".  This strikes me as not likely given that the verb is
>>PROSHUCETO.
>
>My impression is that this citation of Lk 18:11 <

You may permit me a rather characteristic comment on another way
to read the text:
the 'to himself' is part of an idiom that goes together with the verb 
'to stand' and emphasizes the standing "for himself", 
a kind of soft idiom 'he himself stood'.
This is a common idiom in Hebrew and the verb 'stand' fits with 
Hebrew prayer, one of the most ancient of which is called, 
of all things, 'the standing' ha-`amidah.

The Hebrew of this phrase, literary 1st century, ala Qumran:
vayya`amod lo 
vayyitpallel ka'elle (or simply "lemor")

blessings

Randall Buth
www.biblicalulpan.org




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