[B-Greek] [Fwd: gumnokefalos??]
Dave Smith (REL110, 211,212)
rel21x at charter.net
Wed May 17 16:15:12 EDT 2006
Scholars and friends,
I don't know that there is a word, GUMNOKEFALOS, at least not in literary
sources, but there is the word GUMNOPERIBOLOS, without a covering, and St.
Paul does use PERIBOLAIOS in I Cor. 11:16. I don't know how one could
confidently say that this or that is what St. Paul would have/should have
said if he really meant X. It's hard to tell whether he is talking about
hair or veils in the passage at hand. Most the discussion is on hair:
cropped, shaved, & grown long. We actually have a very small sampling of
Greek vocabulary in the NT, compared to the range of words that an educated
person might use in everyday life or the extent of Greek Vocabulary in the
first Century. I think the best one might speculate is that St. Paul could
have said X here, because he also said it somewhere else. It is impossible
to project what St. Paul might have said without some concrete parallel in
his own writings, the LXX, or another source with which he was familiar
(which may have been many and varied). I have a suspicion that Paul had read
Sappho sometime before he penned Romans 1, he knew of Cretan writers, and,
probably, many others. On the other hand, most NT authors demonstrate
hapaxlogomena, at least from our viewpoint. To the original readers, I doubt
if these terms were singular usages at all.
Dave Smith
Hudson, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Smelser" <jeffsmelser at ntgreek.net>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 13:07
Subject: [B-Greek] [Fwd: gumnokefalos??]
> In an article on 1 Cor. 11:2-16, William Martin suggests that the word
> γυμνοκέφαλος (GUMNOKEFALOS) would have been a more explicit term to
> indicate "unveiled". He offers γυμνόπους (GUMNOPOUS) by way of analogy:
>
> Besides, one would expect Paul to use some more explicit term for
> "unveiled", such as γυμνοκέφαλος "bare-headed" (γυμνόπους
> "bare-footed").
> ["1 Corinthians 11:1-16: An Interpretation," W. Ward Gasque & Ralph
> P. Martin, eds.,/ Apostolic History and the Gospel. Biblical and
> Historical Essays Presented to F.F. Bruce/. Exeter: The Paternoster
> Press, 1970. pp. 231-241. Quoted as reproduced in PDF format at
> http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/corinthians_martin.pdf]
>
> I don't find GUMNOKEFALOS attested anywhere, and I'm thinking that
> perhaps Martin means merely to conjecture the existence of the word or
> something similar, using GUMNOPOUS as a model. Or does someone know of
> some occurrence of the word?
>
> Jeff Smelser
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> www.centrevillechurchofchrist.org
>
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