Lk 2:49 EN TOIS ... (Luke in Codex Bezae issue)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 27 06:28:20 EDT 2002
Englished and forwarded to BG for Mme Chabert:
At 4:09 PM -0400 9/26/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
> Frankly I don't believe that is really a viable option. The neuter singular
> or plural article with a genitive is so common in the sense "things having
> to do with" or "matters concerning" that I can't but think that is by far
> the most likely sense here, rather than that DIDASKALOI should be implied
> from the earlier verse. And according to BDAG on substantive usage of the
> neuter plural: EMOS
>
> EN TOIS TOU PATROS MOU in my Father's house (so Field, Notes 50-56; Goodsp.
Probs. 81-83; difft., 'interests', PTemple, CBQ 1, '39, 342-52.-In contrast
to the other synoptists, Luke does not elsewhere show Jesus 'at home'.) Lk
2:49 POxy 523, 3 [II AD] an invitation to a dinner EN TOIS KLAUDIOU
SARAPIWNOS; PTebt 316 II, 23 [99 AD] EN TOIS PATAMWNOS; Esth 7:9; Job
18:19; Jos., Ant. 16, 302. Of the temple of a god Jos., C. Ap. 1,
> 118 EN TOIS TOU DIOS).
Carl,
Can't one rebut that with these citations from Alexander's Dictionary which
indicates its sources only incompletely:
- Sophocle, EN DE TOIS EGW, "and I am among those ..."
- EN TINI EINAI, "to be in someone's power"
- EN TOIS MALISTA, "among those who are most so," (Plato Ep 358b or Plut,
Alc 24 ) ?
Sylvie Chabert d'Hyères
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