[B-Greek] Heb. 10:22 -- Perf. Pass. Ptcs & Accusatives

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Tue May 18 17:09:23 EDT 2004


Westfall egrapse
>If baptism is being treated as a counterpart to the Levitic 
>washing, that reinforces taking this as passive--it is done to the
believer.

An interesting analogy, yet Jewish baptisms were all 'middle', even if
sometimes assumed to have passive terminology. That is, a person 'got
immersed', immersed themselves with an authority as a witness. Culturally,
such middle understandings make good sense, and even have a couple of echos
in NT morphology, like 1Cor 10:2 p46, B kai oligoi: EBAPTISANTO. 
Whether this works for Heb 10 I reserve judgement, but at least the analogy
has strong self-administering/submitting proto-types.

ERRWSQE
Randall Buth

Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il






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