[B-Greek] Translating Mark 1:4 and 1:8 (revised)

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Thu Nov 3 16:54:24 EST 2005


On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:36:28 -0600 "Dan Gleason" <dan-bgreek at hotmail.com>
writes:
> Dr Conrad
> Thank you for the very candid and constructive critisism. I admit, I 
> may be 
> wrong on the way I translated Holy Spirit but the more important 
> issue is 
> how I translated the word baptism.
> 
> Regarding my interlinear approach, I think translating the greek 
> verb BAPTW 
> as a primary word pointing to "immersion" in all it's cognates 
> rather than 
> to an alternate connotation such as "ritual washing for the 
> remission of 
> sins" leads to seeing the Greek text in a new light.
> 
> For example, in my Mk 1:4 post the theme of immersing in the 
> wilderness 
> points to Moses, Elias, and Jesus who were all "immersed in the 
> wilderness" 
> - one for 40 yrs, the other two for 40 days. Immersion also points 
> to 
> Baptism (as washing) then to "Imersion in Water" (a form of 
> Chistening for 
> people), then on to "immersion in the Holy Spirit" (Mk 1:8) The way 
> I see 
> it, the word "immersion" does double duty whereas baptism does not.
> 
> Dan Gleason
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I don't know where you get "immersed in the wilderness" since that is not
what the text states.  What it states is that John was baptizing in the
wilderness, not that he himself was "immersed in the wilderness."  I
sense an agenda here in your stubborn insistence on the use of the word
"immerse" for BAPTW where I and others have pointed out that such would
not be the best translation of the term.

george
gfsomsel
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