[B-Greek] 1 Cor. 7:1,2
Joseph Weaks
j.weaks at tcu.edu
Fri Oct 29 21:30:14 EDT 2004
On Oct 29, 2004, at 6:12 PM, David McKay wrote:
>> Notice also the failure of the NIV to put the quote of v. 1 in quotes
>> and
>> properly identify what's going on.
>
> G'day Joe. I don't think any bible versions from the 1970s or before
> put the
> verse in quotes, do they?
You're right. Sorry if my choice of words sounded as a criticism of an
NIV committee decision. It is the NIV's age that brings about the
oversight. As I said, the benefit of Rhetorical scholarship that
definitively corrected this oversight is just a couple decades old.
> I think there are good arguments for including the quotes [making
> sense of
> the passage] and for not doing it [it is adding interpretation to the
> original]
With this, I agree with Anne in disagreeing. To leave out quotation
marks IS as interpretive as including them. The goal in translation is
most often to be as vague as the text allows, but leaving out the
punctuation doesn't make it vague--it decides for the reader that this
is not a quotation.
It's not really a debated topic. The issue is by far a consensus among
Pauline scholars, SBL and ETS alike. Of course, as Anne stated, folks
can always make theological arguments anyhow, perhaps strengthened with
the imperative that any new scholarship can not take away any of the
precious few sexual admonitions found in the NT. But, the quotation
mark issue is straying into translation theory-- not for this list. And
the interpretation/doctrine/ideology issues stray farther.
Speaking of which... HH: "Do you think Paul would not go along with
God's idea of marriage?"
Are you kidding me, Harold? For us to be able to discuss the Greek
underlying "hot button" texts, we have to walk softly... statements
like yours are the opposite. They are incisive, intentionally so,
inappropriate, and a violation of the list protocol.
Sincerely,
Joe
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Rev. Joseph A. Weaks
Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
Ph.D. (Cand.), Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth
j.weaks at tcu.edu
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