[B-Greek] Greek terms for "bad"
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 30 15:40:58 EST 2006
For reasons somewhat unknown to me, I have been given the assignment to
write the article on "Bad, to be" for the _New Interpreter's Dictionary
of the Bible_. When I asked for clarification on what exactly it was
that the editors wanted me to discuss within this article, I received
the following:
> I would advise you to start with occurrences of "bad"
> from the NRSV concordance and discuss how the term is used while
> listing examples from the text. If there are various Hebrew and Greek
> terms that have been translated as "bad," you could spend time
> explaining the nuances. After a quick glance through, I see that "bad"
> is often paired with "good" in moral sayings, so you might decide to
> treat it rhetorically.
So if I understand the above correctly, I am being asked to write not
just on what the biblical writers thought a **person's** "being bad"
involved, but on what the Greek and Hebrew terms translated with "bad"
signified.
So what are these Greek (and Hebrew) terms? And what do people here
think they convey?
Yours,
Jeffrey
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Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon)
1500 W. Pratt Blvd.
Chicago, Illinois
e-mail jgibson000 at comcast.net
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