[B-Greek] GENNAW
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri May 27 15:26:13 EDT 2005
While I don't think the discussion has passed beyond the limits of B-Greek
discussion, I really wonder whether it hasn't, from the very beginning, focused
more upon how to translate GENNHQHi than upon how to understand the Greek word
itself. It just seems to me that the thread is increasingly repetitious and unproductive.
If the thead is to continue, I would hope we might have more focus upon understanding
the GREEK text AS Greek text and less upon how best to put it into English
On Friday, May 27, 2005, at 03:12PM, Mike Sangrey <MSangrey at BlueFeltHat.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:46 -0700, william zeitler wrote:
><snip>
>> At the same time Jesus was wont to use words in ways that are unique to Him.
>> (ZWH comes to mind). Heck, Nicodemus is getting confused in this very pasage
>> because Jesus is using GENNAW in a sense unique to Him.
>
>Yes and no. He did not use words in ways that are perfectly unique to
>Him. If I said, "He fredded that one," no one would know what I'm
>saying. But I'm probably being pedantic here. Perhaps I'm reacting to
>the number of times people have used the argument you're using in order
>to support the injecting of their own definition of a word into the
>text. I try to be very cautious to not allow myself to do that.
>There's a subtle tension between using a word in a new and unique way
>and still being able to communicate the intended meaning without a lot
>of work redefining the word.
>
>I think it's interesting to this discussion that a word I nearly
>suggested for GENNAW in John 3:3 was one that I had to coin for the use.
>I nearly suggested, 'reprocreated'. That way I could easily capture
>the possible intended ambiguity in the phrase by saying 'reprocreated
>from above' and still allow the flow of thought to enable Nicodemus'
>misunderstanding.
>
>--
>Mike Sangrey
>msangrey AT BlueFeltHat.org
>Landisburg, Pa.
> "The first one last wins."
> "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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