[B-Greek] Christian chumash?
Awohili at aol.com
Awohili at aol.com
Tue Aug 16 11:55:38 EDT 2005
Sounds like a good idea until you get to the modern commentators...where
denominational concerns might enter. Jews have fewer denominations than
Christendom, so it is less of a problem, as well as sages of distinction broadly
accepted by the variety of Jewish schools of thought.
Perhaps there has been little of this so far is also because Jews place more
emphasis on Torah study than many Christians do on Bible study. In Pirkei
Avot ("Ethics of the Fathers") 1:2, Shimon ha-Tsaddik, one of the men of the
Knesset ha-Gedolah (Great Assembly) said: "The world depends on three things
-- on Torah study, on the service of God, and on deeds of loving-kindness."
Maybe if more Christians likewise considered Bible study such a foremost and
vital foundation -- for this world and the world to come -- there would be
more of a market for a "Christian Chumash"?
Solomon Landers
In a message dated 08/16/2005 8:24:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
curtis at curtishinson.com writes:
As far as I've been able to tell, there is no true Christian equivilant
of the chumashim. Why not have a type of Synopsis Quattor with a line
or two of the Greek text of, say, Mark at the top, and around it use the
other gospels as commentary. Different volumes could do the same thing
with other synoptic priorities I suppose. Now where you'd find talmudic
commentary in a Chumash, you could have NT commentary, early fathers,
and modern commentators. Where you'd find the targum, one could have
related LXX texts and Peshitta. There should be a standard format used,
and each gospel should get its own font, its own personality so to
speak............
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