[B-Greek] IOUDAIOS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jan 29 20:55:46 EST 2004
At 2:59 PM -0800 1/29/04, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
> 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.
I will only say, Ken, that I posted the article from BDAG so that people
could draw their own conclusions. I for one don't see anything disturbing
in this representation of the word, particularly inasmuch as he clearly
equates "Judean" with "Jew" in most uses where its a matter of adherence to
Mosaic traditions. There's no indication that "Judean" is meant strictly
and regularly as a geographical term. I rather think this is a tempest in a
teapot.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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