[B-Greek] Mapping Language changes
Paul Toseland
toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jun 25 08:23:12 EDT 2003
Hi Carl.
You wrote,
>It is certainly true, as Brian mentions above and as I noted
>in a message yesterday, that the so-called "Second-Sophistic
>and its "Atticist" influence retarded the completion of several
>changes which had begun to take place three centuries or
>more earlier.
Brian Boland rightly dates the Second Sophisitc to 'about
50-250'. However, given that many of the New Testament
documents were written before 70 A.D., it is probably worth
noting that, citing compelling evidence form Philo, Bruce Winter
has demonstrated that this movement was 'already flowering
if not flourishing' in the first half of the first century:
Winter, B. W., 'Philo and Paul Among the Sophists',
*New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.*; the quote
is from p 4.
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Paul Toseland
Bristol, UK
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