[B-Greek] translation of phrase

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Thu Sep 23 04:25:32 EDT 2004


Richard Ghilardi egrapse
> 
> Any translation that uses STAURWSIS must certainly be ruled 
> out, not only because it is unidiomatic, as Carl rightly points 
> out, but on semantic grounds as well. It is not to be found 
> in the LXX, NT or the Apostolic Fathers. BDAG does not cite 
> it. I doubt it was used before the fourth century or perhaps 
> even later with the meaning "crucifixion". From the quill of 
> Thucydides it bore the meaning "stockade". I presume it 
> continued to have that meaning down into Hellenistic times. 
> The ususal word for "crucifixion" in the first century A.D. 
> was, apparently, STAUROPOIIA as evidenced by the papyri, 
> specifically, POxy. 2339.25 dated in the first century of our 
> era.
 

EUXARISTW Richard, 

OUK EGNWN OTI OUK HUREQH "STAURWSIS" 

[=QANATWSIS/QANATOPOIIA EN STAURW] 

EN TOIS PRWTOIS ETESI M.X. 

ERRWSO

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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