[B-Greek] IOUDAIOS
Kenneth Litwak
javajedi2 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 29 17:59:44 EST 2004
I'm appreciative of Carl'd posting of the BDAG entry
for IOUDAIOS, because I believe it shows the
inappropriateness of rendering IOUDAIOS as "Judean"
most of the time. Danker has taken great liberties,
in my view, and gone outside of what ancient authors
likely meant. I thnk Paul would have been surprised
to learn that he was preaching to Judeans first and
then to the Gentiles. Danker's article leaves me
totally unconvinced that anyone in the larger
Greco-Roamn world thought that there neighbors were
Judeans, rather than Jews. Danker's suggestion that
the variety of forms of Jewish belief emans that "Jew"
is an inappropriate lable is problematic to say the
least. Ad DUnn has argued, all the known varrrieites
of Judaism still have basic tins in common that make
them all "JUdaism," and all the people descended from
Jaco who practice any of those flavors of Judaism are
Jews, even though they may have never gone to
Jerusalem. This strikes me as really an effort to
be PC, not give anceint authors the opportunity to say
what they meant. I"m no lexicographer but I believe
that Dnaker has gone way over the line on this one.
Kenneth Litwak, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty
Southwestern COllege
Wichita, KS
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