[B-Greek] Mk. 15:24
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 8 23:34:02 EST 2005
Julia Rossner wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a question concerning Mk. 15:24:
> KAI STAURWSANTES AUTON DIAMERIZONTAI TA IMATIA AUTOU,
> BALLONTES KLHRON EP AUTA [...].
> The KJV translates: "And when they had crucified him,
> they parted his garments casting lots upon them,..."
>
> Now, in his most amazing book 'Jesus was Caesar'
Yes, it is an amazing book all right, amazing bad -- and possessing the
most amazing number of bifurcations per page that I have ever seen.
>
> Francesco Carotta says that:
> "If we have a closer look at this verb, it turns out
> that staur? does not mean crucify, but to put up posts
> or slats or a palisade, or more precisely to fence in.
> Namely, the origin of the verb is stauros, which means
> stake, post, slat, and especially in the plural:
> palisade. First the Christians used the verb in the
> sense of to put up a post, then the post was
> interpreted as a stake and later on as a torture
> stakea cross. So, put up stakes or posts became
> lift to the cross, whereby in the mind, due to the
> iconography, the image of nailed to the cross
> developed.[126]
>
Um, does he actually anywhere provide attestations for these alleged
"pagan" and Christian" uses of the verb -- which (assuming you've
reproduced his words correctly) is STAUROW.
Jeffrey
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