[B-Greek] Re: Semantic Domain of SARX
Kenneth Litwak
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Thu Dec 2 12:19:12 EST 2004
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:46:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Doug Hoxworth <doughoxworth at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Semnatic domain of SARX
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> ><Ken>
> >Wouldn't it always be better lexicographically to
> give a normal "translation" than an interpretive
> gloss
> that is clearly not really part of a word's semantic
> domain from its original linguistic context? Now I
> don't know where to look for good translations for
> words.
>
> <doug>
> not necessarily. and what do you mean by "normal
> 'translation'"? normal according to what standard?
> are
> you an advocate of concordant translation (e.g.,
> would
> you expect it to be englished as "flesh" everywhere
> it
> occurs?)
>
> also, you have not proven that the gloss
> ["interpretive" as you call it] here is disallowed
> in
> all contexts. perhaps it is part of the semantic
> range
> of the word. i do not see that you have proven that
> it
> is not.
>
> Doug Hoxworth
> Luther Rice Seminary
Doug,
My point is not to argue here about the specific
meaning of SARX in a given passage. My point is that
I have yet to be convinced that if you asked a person
in Rome in the middle of the first century, "What does
SARX refer to?", they might point to a body, they
might point to a beef roast, they might use a SWMA as
a synonym, but they would not say SARX = (AMARTOLOS
FUSIJ, or some other metaphorical idea. That is
simply not how SARX is used in Greek literature that I
can see. Therefore, a lexicon should offer options
for what the word meant to ancient Greek speakers and
leave it to commentators if they wish to say that SARX
is used by Paul to point to something metaphorical
that goes well beyond the word's meaning.
Ken Litwak
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