[B-Greek] articles on PEIRASMOS

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Fri Aug 15 15:21:25 EDT 2003


I have uploaded several files on PEIRASMOS and PEIRAZW, including my
DNTB entry on "Testing and Trial in Secular Greek Thought", to the
following page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JBGibsonWritings/files/

Besides the DNTB entry you'll find a preliminary draft of what is
eventually intended to be a monograph on PEIRASMOS and PEIRAZW that is
divided into four parts: (1) an introduction (LEXEVINTRO) that describes
my concerns about whether scholars and translators, not to mention other
folk who rely on their work,  have actually understood what these terms
were used to signify in the ancient world; (2) a listing on the
instances of the terms (LEXEVCHP1), (3) a discussion and analysis of how
the terms were used and what they meant (LEXEVCHP2), and (4) a review of
what stories in Biblical and Secular Greek literature of human beings
under PEIRASMOS tells us about how the phenomenon designated by the term
PEIRASMOS was understood in the ancient world (LEXEVCHP3).

I hasten to note that the my statistics on instances of the terms are
based upon data drawn from an older version the TLG and therefore might
not be as complete as I claim they are in the text I have uploaded. I
also note that the draft is drawn without much alteration from what were
the opening chapters of my doctoral thesis, and as such is presently
cast in the service of setting up the background information necessary
for establishing whether or not there was a uniform conception in the
Early Church on the nature and content of the various PEIRASMOI that
Gospel authors recounted,  and that other early Christians knew Jesus to
have undergone. Hence the absence of a discussion of the instances of
PEIRASMOS and PEIRAZW in the Gospel texts themselves.

Please feel free to use the material. But please also remember that I
reserve all rights to it and that, if you do make use of my research for
anything other than your own study,  I would appreciate your
acknowledging where the material came from.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
--

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000 at comcast.net





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