Sabbatos

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 11 16:54:36 EDT 2002


forwarded for George Somsel:

>In a message dated 9/11/2002 1:42:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>pennerkm at mcmaster.ca writes:
>
>>Have you checked BDF? I imagine you've read their sections on the
>>declension of Semitic loanwords.  Section 141(3) lists ZenP Cairo IV
>>59762.6 (iii BC).
>>I don't have TDNT with me; was its entry on SABBATON not helpful?
>>
>>> the earliest occurrence of SABBATOS in Greek literature? 
>>> I am particularly interested in why this word might have been
>>> carried over from Hebrew/Aramaic as an inflected form but other forms
>>> (e.g., ABBA) were not.
>>
>
>
>I'm still checking on this, but there are some possibilities on the internet
>
>http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/snapshots/Zenon%20Archive/Zenon2.html
>
>I haven't followed the links to see what they contain.  TDNT (Abridged)
>remarks that the sabbath observance was tolerated by the Greeks and Romans
>so presumably they referred to it in some manner (perhaps
>periphrastically) though the on-line TLG shows nothing other than
>Christian references.  Zenon seems be the earliest reference outside the
>LXX and Christian literature.
>
>gfsomsel
>Polycarp66 at aol.com







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