Mk 1:3 & par. EN THi ERHMWi MT/LXX
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Wed Sep 4 02:00:35 EDT 2002
MATT. 3:3 FWNH BOWNTOS EN THi ERHMWi: hETOIMASATE THN hODON KURIOU, EUQEIAS
POIEITE TAS TRIBOUS AUTOU.
MARK 1:3 FWNH BOWNTOS EN THi ERHMWi: hETOIMASATE THN hODON KURIOU, EUQEIAS
POIEITE TAS TRIBOUS AUTOU,
LUKE 3:4 FWNH BOWNTOS EN THi ERHMWi: hETOIMASATE THN hODON KURIOU, EUQEIAS
POIEITE TAS TRIBOUS AUTOU:
IS. 40:3 FWNH BOWNTOS EN THi ERHMWi hETOIMASATE THN hODON KURIOU EUQEIAS
POIEITE TAS TRIBOUS TOU QEOU hHMWN
One of you Hebrew scholars want to give some help with this one?
Where do we join EN THi ERHMWi? With FWNH BOWNTOS or with what follows?
Joan E. Taylor* and James R. Edwards** disagree on the evidence. Edwards
states (p.27) "In both the MT and the LXX 'in the desert' designates the
place where God will prepare the way for his people . . . Mark, however,
aligns 'in the desert' with the herald . . . "
Taylor claims that the NT and LXX agree on this and disagree with the MT.
She suggests (tentatively?) that the MT joins "in the desert" with what
follows. This agrees with A. Motyer's and E.J. Young's reading of Isa. 4:3.
The first word, kol, is taken as an exclamation and bmbdr is read as an
adverbial limiting the following verbal clause. Young makes a second comment
that the MT could be read the way we find it in the synoptic gospels. What
about this? Can it be read both ways in the MT?
I find Edwards' point hard to fathom. Where is the contrast between the GNT
and LXX? If you subtract the editorial punctuation of the GNT and you have:
FWNH BOWNTOS EN THi ERHMWi hETOIMASATE THN hODON KURIOU.
Taylor's treatment sounds better but I cannot be sure without some
enlightenment about the clause structure in the MT.
Thanks,
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
*Taylor, Joan E. Immerser: John the Baptist within second temple judaism
Eerdmans: 1997. pp 25-27.
**Edwards, James R. The Gospel According to Mark, Eerdmans 2002, p. 27.
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