[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

**************************************************************
Rev. Joseph A. Weaks
Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
Ph.D. (Cand.), Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth
j.weaks at tcu.edu
**************************************************************




More information about the B-Greek mailing list