[B-Greek] Mk. 15:24
Julia Rossner
julia_rossner at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 9 17:11:43 EST 2005
Thank you very much, Jeffrey and Arie, for the
information and that interesting STAUROW compilation.
So now we know that 'STAUROW can mean "to
crucify" outside the Christian realm and already
before Christian times'.
But Carotta's translation is possible as well,
probably even more probable in this context, isn't it?
KAI STAURWSANTES AUTON DIAMERIZONTAI TA IMATIA AUTOU,
BALLONTES KLHRON EP AUTA [...].
And when they had crucified him, they parted
his garments, casting lots upon them
"But a Greek of the first century would not have
understood the sentence in this way, either not at
all, or if so, rather in this sense:
and when they were putting up stakes, posts or
slats or a palisade around him, they parted the
garments, and cast valuable pieces on it
because the Greek word for lotklêrosoriginally
means all that is received as an allotment, especially
an inheritance, an heirloom.
A strange sentence. It rather seems to describe the
erection of a funeral pyre and the ritual casting of
gifts for the dead on it than the erection of a
cross."
Is this interpretation correct? The Greek linguist
Fotis Kavoukopoulos has no objections.
Now, if we go two verses backwards Mark says:
Mk. 15:22: [
] KAI FEROUSIN AUTON EPI TON GOLGOQAN
TOPON, O ESTIN MEQERHMNEUOMENON KRANIOU TOPOS.
KJV:
And they bring him unto the place Golgotha,
which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
"It is striking that both sources in the Greek
language use the same verb pherô: bear, carry,
bring. In Jesus case we would have expected the
word led, for he still was alive. This expectation
is so strong that it has been correspondingly
corrected in some manuscripts."
Appianus says:
App. BC 2.148: [
] O DE DHMOS EPI TO LECOS TOU
KAISAROS EPANELQWN EFERON AUTO ES TO KAPITWLION [
].
'...but the people returned to Caesars bier and they
bore him to the Capitol...'
cf.
http://www.carotta.de/subseite/texte/jwc_e/crux1.html#cross
Could Mark be describing Caesar's funeral here?
The parallels, there are hundreds more, are so
strikingly similar that I think it would be worthwhile
if some scholars took a close look at them. That the
historical Jesus was actually Julius Caesar may very
well be the discovery of the century (millenium).
Julia Rossner
Julia Rossner
The Home Institute for Greek Bible and Historical Jesus Studies
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