[B-Greek] GENEA (Phil. 2:15): How Close to "Culture"?
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Fri Dec 8 18:47:22 EST 2006
I was translating Phil. 2:15, where Paul talks about a "twisted and perverse
generation, among whom you shine like stars", and it struck me that I might
paraphrase that as, "a twisted and perverse culture", meaning something like
a "the Zeitgeist of the current generation", i.e. the common worldview and
mentality of the people in a given place, whose behavioral and mental center
of gravity does have a kind of dynamic, generational character. But when I
tried to do a reverse look up on the word "culture" on Liddell and Scott
using Perseus, nothing very relevant-looking came up. Is there a Greek word
that could be translated as "culture", in the broad sense of "our culture"?
If not, does that open the possibility that Paul may have been reaching for
a concept whose most communicative English equivalent is "culture"?
Webb Mealy
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