two tunics

Ben and Jo Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Thu Jun 13 14:21:24 EDT 2002


On Thu 13 Jun 2002 (10:08:19 +0000), jwest wrote:
> thanks. 
> 
 You're welcome. Before leaving this topic, HB Swete comments that the
 CITWN was from Hebrew K:ToNeT, the name of Joseph's coat of many colours
 (Genesis 37:3). It is also the name of Christ's garment which the soldiers
 did not wish to rend (John 19:23). So was it a shirt, or was it a poncho?

 Josephus mentions it in /Antiquities/ 17:5:7, TON ENTOS CITWNA, ENEDEDUKEI
 GAR DUO. Apparently Herod's son Antipater's slave was wearing two CITWNAS
 in order to conceal a secret letter between the layers. As this might have
 been common knowledge at the time of the Mission of the 12, maybe wearing
 two such garments might be considered seditious?

 See HB Swete, /The Gospel according to St Mark/, 3rd Ed., Macmillan, London,
 1920, p 117.

 Ben
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