[B-Greek] Revelation 12:7
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Thu Apr 8 16:18:57 EDT 2004
Bart,
In my opinion the apostle John wrote the Revelation. If you do not agree,
the author must have been a Jew, who, like John, used to think in a
Semitical language. There are many examples in the Revelation where the
Greek language could be improved (Blass-Debrunner-Rehkopf, par. 136). I do
not think that we have to classify these examples as mere mistakes. It is
clear that John had from time to time some problems expressing his thoughts
in a foreign language (like me now).
So it is not clear if John *wrote* the Revelation in Hebrew or Aramaean.
Anyhow, *in his mind* the Revelation was present in Hebrew or Aramaean.
His style in the Gospel and the letters is better. But we should not forget,
that John was very old when he wrote the Revelation. It is also possible
that he did not have the time (the text had to be send to the seven churches
in order to comfort them) or did not have the right person at hand to
improve the language of the text he was writing.
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Bart Torbert" <Bart.Torbert at ihsenergy.com>
Aan: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: donderdag 8 april 2004 21:54
Onderwerp: Re: [B-Greek] Revelation 12:7
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> If there is such a Jewish construct can we assume something about the
> actual writing of the text. Was it in Hebrew and translated into Greek?
> Was it written by someone who was more comfortable with Hebrew and tried
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> write Greek, but did so poorly?
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> Bart Torbert
> bart.torbert at ihsenergy.com
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