[B-Greek] Jn 1:1 - Alternate Reading?
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 5 15:39:53 EDT 2006
Unfortunately, the new Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, which would
specifically approach and comment on John 1:1 from a theological and Nicene-
oriented perspective, does not have a volume for John listed on the dustcover of the
Acts volume (by Jaroslav Pelikan) for projected volumes in the series, though ones on
Matthew and Luke (as well as many Epistles and Revelation) are listed.
Also see the repeat of my comment from my earlier post: John 1:1 is a Colwell issue,
not a Sharp issue. ;^)
James Spinti wrote:
> As I asked the last time this whole thing came up--maybe 3 weeks ago?
Why does no one who is arguing for the "a god" translation go back to
the early church fathers who knew Greek? Is this verse ever used as an
argument in any of their treatises (both for and against Arianism)? They
KNEW Greek, they spoke it, thought in it, breathed it-if you will. As
far as I can tell from my somewhat limited reading (but more than the
last time the question came up!), neither side used John 1 as an
argument. It was a non-starter, grammatically.
> I am open to being shown wrong, but in view of our more limited
knowledge of Greek, we should show a bit of humility before their
silence in using the supposed "indefiniteness" of QEOS as an argument.
Maybe we should concentrate on reading Greek, and not trying to proof
text our own theological viewpoint, especially if our knowledge of Greek
is limited to a year or three of college/seminary Greek (and only NT
Koine at that!).
> Frustratedly,
James
(yes, I have an advanced degree in Classics...)
Eric Weiss <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Don't confuse Colwell with Sharp. I see both names being used with reference to John
1:1, but John 1:1 has nothing to do with Granville Sharp, IIRC, just Ernest Colwell.
Colwell's Rule:
http://faculty.bbc.edu/Rdecker/documents/colwell.pdf#search=%22colwell's%20rule%22
Granville Sharp's Rule:
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1496
Please correct me if I'm in error.
Eric S. Weiss
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