[B-Greek] List parameters (was "word meaning")
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri May 23 16:52:49 EDT 2003
At 3:14 PM -0500 5/23/03, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
>On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Any time a post begins with a theological question or objection, it is
>> next
>> to impossible to make that post fit into the confines of b-greek. This
>> post
>> also goes into a question of interpretive method as well and should
>> not have been
>> posted. So let us close this thread. I think that Eric has vented
>> enough for
>> all of us so that we can just let it go.
>>
>> Please drop this post. For any lingering questions consult any good
>> commentary or one of the other lists.
>
>Hi Carlton:
>
>I did not see your post before sending my own, otherwise I would not
>have posted. However, if divorced from theological assertions and
>arguments, is this not a proper topic for B-Greek, seeing that it is
>the semantics of certain phrases containing the Greek word AIWON that
>is in view?
Certainly the semantics of words such as AIWN and SARX is legitimate grist
for our mill; the problem with the original post in the thread in question
is that it seemed to be asking for ammunition to knock down a dogmatic
doctrinal stance; that underlying challenge,it seems to me, is what sent up
the red flag; the question COULD have been posed without reference to a
theological stance but wasn't so posed.
I have often in the past urged that list-members please read all current
posts, especially previous responses to a thread, before responding to any;
that, I am told, is "inconvenient." At any rate I've observed that such
urging doesn't do much good, as we all have a tendency to respond
immediately when our interest is first aroused.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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