[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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