[B-Greek] Romans 3 The Word of God
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Thu May 6 23:29:32 EDT 2004
At 02:29 AM 5/6/2004 -0400, sheldon bryan wrote:
>Reviewing several NT versions, I have found that a number of them have
>translated TA LOGIA TOU QEOU as "the oracles of God" , "the Holy
>Scriptures", "God's messages" or even "God's revelations". I am wondering if
>there might be a more appropriate historically informed translation of the
>phrase especially in light of early papyri and LXX usage.
A decent, recent treatment of the term LOGIA can be found in
Dieter Lührmann, "Q: Sayings or Jesus or Logia?" in Ronald A.
Piper, ed., THE GOSPEL BEHIND THE GOSPELS: Current Studies on
Q (Leiden: Brill, 1995), 97-116. Lührmann endorses the definition
given in LSJM "oracle, esp. one preserved from antiquity" (in
which an "oracle" is to be understood as a "divine utterance")
as appropriate in all the contexts in which the term is found
in early Christian literature.
The divine utterances of God preserved from of old that are
in view at Rom 3:2 would seem to be those given by God to Moses
on Sinai, i.e. the Torah (cf. NOMOS in 2:23, 3:19, etc.).
Stephen Carlson
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