[B-Greek] PARADIDWMI

Mark Goodacre M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
Fri May 21 04:48:37 EDT 2004


Raymond Brown wrote an authoritative review of Klassen's books 
shortly before his death.  It's online in the SBL's Review of 
Biblical Literature at:

http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/2228_1369.pdf

Here's a quotation relevant to the discussion of PARADIDWMI, which 
echoes some of the points made in the current thread:

"In my judgment his interpretations of individual passages, often 
only remotely possible, do not do justice to the overall flow of the 
Gospel narratives. For example, he joins those who argue that 
PARADIDONAI means "to give/hand over" and should not be translated 
"betray" (a translation I rigorously avoided in The Death of the 
Messiah), but then (p. 23) he seems to think it illogical if Gospel 
exegetes speak of Judas as betraying Jesus. Luke 6:16, however, does 
use the word PRODOTHS, "traitor." The Synoptic evangelists portray 
sequentially the chief priests seeking a way to arrest and kill Jesus 
(two Gospels specifying that they wanted to avoid public tumult in so 
doing), Judas receiving money to give Jesus over, and then his coming 
at night with others who seize or arrest Jesus. Other interpretations 
may be possible, but it is quite proper for most commentators to read 
that sequence as recounting betrayal. I do not know if any 
contemporary account of Benedict Arnold uses the verb "betray"; but 
historians are not illogical in calling him a traitor since  
as commander in charge of West Point, anticipating favors from the  
British, he informed their agent how they might easily take that 
strategic fort."
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