[B-Greek] Questions

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Sun Dec 26 13:00:35 EST 2004


On Dec 26, 2004, at 10:59 AM, António Madaleno wrote:

> 1- Someone told me that Jason David BeDuhn didn't have a complete 
> formation in greek and he is not recognize in scholar's comunity. It 
> is true?

To my knowledge we have discussed BeDuhn's work on this list only once. 
I don't know anything about his education in Greek or acceptance in the 
"scholarly community" (which one?). But I DO know that his treatment of 
Heb 1.8 was exposed as flawed, to say the least. In fact, it was 
methodologically misleading, though I would not go so far as to say 
intentionally so. Though I am not a professional scholar, one of the 
first aspects of his treatment that jumped out at me was his failure to 
take into account parallels from the LXX and other sources, such as Lam 
5.19 and 1 Enoch 9.4. How could a Greek scholar ignore the LXX in 
treating the grammar and syntax of a quotation FROM the LXX? And why 
would he purposely and artificially limit his sources to just the GNT? 
VERY suspect, in my opinion.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI



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