[B-Greek] slightly OT _PROGONOS in Koine & Byzantine Greek

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Mar 11 12:14:26 EST 2005


At 11:18 AM -0600 3/11/05, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
> 
>
>"Jeffrey B. Gibson" wrote:
>
>> And would anyone like to take a shot at translating this entry on the
>> Essenes from the Suda?
>>
>> ESSAIOI:  Ioudaioi, askhtai,  Farisaiwn kai grammatewn thn askhsin ec
>> epimetrou dianesthkotes, progonoi  Iwnada/b, uiou  Rixab tou dikaiou.
>>
>> What is the sense that PROGONOI has here?
>
>Apologies for mixing forms of transliteration. I correct it now to:
>
>ESSAIOI:  IOUDAIOI, ASKHTAI,  FARISAIWN KAI GRAMMATEWN THN ASKHSIN EC
>EPIMETROU DIANESTHKOTES, PROGONOI IWNADAB, hUIOU RhIXAB TOU DIKAIOU.
>
>If I'm reading this correctly, it seems to indicate that the author of
>this entry thought the Essenes were the ancestors of  Jonadab.  But
>historically, that can't be correct.

Jeffrey, this is a guess, but I don't think it impossible that the creator
of this SUDA entry confounded the Latin PROGENIES "descendant" with the
Greek PROGONOS "ancestor."
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Carl W. Conrad
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