[B-Greek] IOUDAIOS

Ken Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed Jan 28 16:38:21 EST 2004


Hi Kenneth,

I propose you raise your objection to "Judean" as a rendering of IOUDAIOS on
the IOUDAIOS list itself; I expect Steve Mason would give it an admirable
defence! :-)

Ken Penner, Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
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> Most inappropriate is Danker's rendering of
> IOUDAIOS as "Judean."  This word almost always
> referred to "Jew" and inventing this meaning, which is
> wholly inappropriate in the vast number of
> occurrences, goes way beyond giving the meaning of the
> word, which "Judean" is not, and inventing a
> "translation to fit an ideological agenda, which
> Danker said shouldn't be done.  
> 
>     Again, one might, in a given context, "translate"
> IOUDAIOI as Judeans or Jewish leaders or something
> else, but that's a far cry from telling users of BDAG
> what the word means.
> 
> Certainly, what BDAG has done with
> IOUDAIOS should give one great pause before affirming
> that "BDAG said it, I believe it and that settles it
> for me." 




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