[B-Greek] Mark 14:10 hO hEIS TWN DWDEKA
Webb
webb at selftest.net
Fri Jan 27 17:04:22 EST 2006
When I first saw hO hEIS TWN DWDEKA, I read it as "the foremost of the
twelve". Given Mark's somewhat quirky style, and ignoring (1) the parallels
with Matthew and Luke, (2) the supposed common knowledge that Peter was the
foremost of the twelve, and (3) the supposed unlikelihood that the foremost
of Jesus' disciples could betray him, is that reading possible?
Actually, maybe we shouldn't ignore the //s with M and L. Each of them
changes this expression-M has hEIS TWN DWDEKA (which I would have expected),
and L has ONTA EK TOU ARIQMOU TWN DWDEKA. Could it be that they read it as
ambiguous and removed the perceived ambiguity?
Webb Mealy
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