[B-Greek] RE: woman's veil ANTI

Kenneth Litwak javajedi2 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 23 11:44:48 EDT 2004


  ANTI means "instead of."  It is a failure to
understand Paul's statements that leads to attempts to
overthrow the obvious meaning of the word in favor of
some less supportable alternative.  For a good
treatment of ANTI in this passage, as well as wht Paul
is most likely saying, see Alan Padgett's article from
many years ago:  Paul on women in the church : the
contradictions of coiffure in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Journal for the Study of the New Testament no 20 F
1984, p 69-86.  

   On another issue, I would recommend against using
Strong's "glosses" for anything.  They are too
simplistic and based on too limited a database. You'd
be far better off, if you aren't prepared to pay for
more expensive tools, to look up the word on Perseus
and take the Liddell-Scott-Jones renderings.  

Kenneth Litwak, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty
Southwestern College
Wichita, KS



		
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