[B-Greek] Romans 16:7
Dan Starcevich
dan.star at comcast.net
Tue Dec 21 10:41:46 EST 2004
My guess is that Crossan is only considering, and somewhat exaggerating,
the Church Fathers and ignoring the other evidence since it doesn't fit his
argument. My view is that he tends to be more polemical in his arguments
than exegetical. I don't have access to his book so maybe Jim can post any
footnotes Crossan includes to indicate exactly what he is referring to in
his claim.
I am familiar with text critical issues and the need to weigh evidences.
However I think that when we get to things like the assumed motive of the
scribe we are getting into second or third order (at best) evidences. As for
the motive of the scribes or interpreters, I would be more cautious than Dr.
West in assuming that they were dealing with the same ecclesiastical issues
then that we are today. Certainly the Latin Church Fathers didn't have a
problem with Junia being a woman. Rather than posit a political motive
driving the scribes interpretation I suggest that what we see then is the
same situation we see today, namely a lack of clear compelling data for
either view and a resultant difference of interpretation.
Dan Starcevich
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Harold R. Holmyard
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Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Romans 16:7
Dear Jim,
>See, John Dominic Crossan's new book, In Search of Paul, p. 115. I
>quote: "Finally, there is Junia, a case that would be funny to
>ridiculous if it were not so tragic. For the first twelve hundred
>years of Christianity, commentators had no trouble identifying her name
>as female....
But Dan Starcevich just wrote:
1. When accents were added to the Greek text in the ninth century the
circumflex was placed over the ultima indicating that our ninth century
brothers and sisters understood this to be a man's name.
HH: One of these two men are wrong if Crossan makes a sweeping claim, which
is what his words appear to do.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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