[B-Greek] ARSENOKOITHS
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 15 16:01:21 EST 2005
Jim West wrote:
> Jeffrey B Gibson wrote:
>
> >
> >TLG dates the text in the Sybllines where the attestation occurs to 2 BCE.
> >
> >
> JJ Collins dates them anywhere from the 2nd cent BCE to the 7th CE.
> Evidently they underwent a LOT of editing and redacting, probably in the
> later stages at Christian hands. It seems not too far fetched to me
> that a redactor familiar with Paul would make use of the word. But, I
> confess, that is speculative.
>
> >Not sure about the date of the Scholia. But even if it's later than 50, it may
> >still be an independent witness to the existence of the word, especially if the
> >Scholiast is non Christian.
> >
> >
> Unless the copyist were Christian at a later stage of transmission. But
> again, there's no way to know. The one thing we do know, and I would
> say with absolute certainty, is that Paul wrote 1 Cor. in the mid 50's.
> His use, then, is the first firmly attested.
What about the papyri?
BTW, LSJ offers the noun as a variant on arrenokoit?s which appears in
Scholia In
Aristophanem, Scholia in nubes sch recent nub.1090c.1 and &` Anthologia
Graeca
9.686.5.
Jeffrey
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