[B-Greek] Mk 6:45 PROS BHQSAIDAN
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jul 6 07:46:47 EDT 2006
PROS can certainly mean "near" or "in the vicinity of" or "next to."
Most fundamentally I think it means "in front of" or "facing" or "in
the presence of."
Is there really any clear indication of where the feeding of Mk
6:35-44 takes place, other than that Jesus and his entourage got
there EN TWi PLOIWI, KAT' IDIAN EIS ERHMON TOPON (6:32)? It seems to
me that the indications are not very clear, beyond a generalized sail
"to the other side." There's quite a bit of crossing the lake in
Mark's gospel, and some have suggested (I don't necessarily buy into
the suggestion) that there's a symbolic dimension of "east side
Gentile, west side Judean" that's particularly prominent in the two
feeding narratives and episodes of Jesus asleep in the boat or not
with the disciples as they sail in distress. It does seem to me that
the geography of Mark's gospel is less precise and exacting than the
geographical indications of Matthew's and Luke's. At any rate, I'm
not so sure there's a significant problem here.
On Jul 6, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
> Wieland:
>
> Just a thought here.
>
> Your translation takes PROS to actually mean "away
> from" not "toward". I would check PROS references for
> such a nuance, though I'm not very hopeful you'll find
> one.
>
> Eddie Mishoe
>
> --- Wieland Willker <willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks HH,
>>
>> some good references!
>> What I wanted to know specifically is this:
>>
>>> PROAGEIN EIS TO PERAN, PROS BHQSAIDAN
>>> =
>>> "go on ahead to the other side, (looking back) to
>> Bethsaida"
>>>
>>> Is this interpretation of "PROS" allowed?
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Wieland
>> <><
>
>
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