Question on Genesis 34:3 LXX
rmeyers5 at charter.net
rmeyers5 at charter.net
Tue Nov 5 08:36:45 EST 2002
[In dealing with this question, please keep the conversation about the use of the Greek words in lexical and contextual study. Carlton Winbery]
My question is: I am given to understand by numerous commentators
that parthenos means emphatically a virgin. However, it is used
twice in Gen. 34:3 LXX seeming to contradict this. (It is used
twice of Dina, there, *after* she had been violated.)
I am anxious to learn:
a. Are the commentators wrong about parthenos?
b. Did the meaning of parthenos change between the LXX and
the NT (where it does seem to emphatically mean a virgin)?
c. Are there textual variants on this?
d. Could there be a figurative play on words at Gen. 34:3 about
her previous virginity?
Thank you,
Bob Meyers
Washington State
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