[B-Greek] WARNING Re: APOSTOLOS in 1 Cor 12
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Aug 31 14:05:53 EDT 2004
I would urge list-members involved in the current thread stay closely
focused on the meaning of words in the immediate syntactic context of the
passage(s) under discussion and avoid extension of the discussion into
doctrinal issues of gender roles and ecclesiastical office. Perhaps part of
a message I sent out just over a year ago may help to clarify this for any
who are unsure:
At 4:46 PM -0400 8/20/03, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>B-Greekers:
>
>While most of those who post to B-Greek with some regularity have a pretty
>good sense of what sorts of questions and comments are appropriate for this
>list and what sorts are not, there is some measure of confusion about the
>parameters. We do spell out general guidelines in the FAQ
>(http://ibiblio.org/bgreek.faq.txt), but when we say in that document,
>"B-Greek is not a forum for general Bible issues, except insofar as they
>may bear specifically upon interpretation of a particular Greek text.
>Neither is it a forum for general or specific hermeneutical or theological
>issues," it is evidently not clear to a few what is meant by crossing the
>line into hermeneutical or theological issues.
>
>There's actually a relatively simple test that any list-member may use to
>gauge the probability of his/her question or comment being deemed
>appropriate:
>
>"Does the question or comment focus upon the Greek text of a biblical
>passage AS A GREEK TEXT?"
>
>If the question or comment could just as well be asked regarding any
>translation of that Biblical passage into the writer's own language, then
>it's almost certainly not properly a B-Greek question or comment.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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