[B-Greek] NWT: Is it an accurate translation of the Greek?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Feb 24 15:15:21 EST 2006
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Joe R wrote:
> Let me first say sorry for going beyond the remit of this list.
> Let me try harder to stick to the Greek. We want to know what the
> first
> readers understood by the text.
> Was QEOS not a word for any remarkable person and not limited to the
> meaning that we have for "god"?
> Is that why we get touchy about its usage whereas they wouldn't have
> thought it so special?
May I suggest that those who are seriously interested in this
question, which is not nearly quite so simple as might superficially
appear, read carefully through the full article on QEOS in both BDAG
and LSJ? And probably one should also look carefully at Louw & Nida.
There are more-or-less authoritative reference lexica setting forth
the range and usage of QEOS in Biblical and extra-biblical
literature. It seems to me a bit much to call for opinions of list-
members on a question like this. I'm not saying that any lexicon
tells you all that you might want to know about the range of usage
and literature in which various forms of the word QEOS appears, but
that, in my opinion, is a better place to start with a question like
this of the meaning of QEOS.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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