[B-Greek] Re. Paulines vs. Hebrews
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Sep 2 07:08:48 EDT 2006
On Saturday, September 02, 2006, at 00:58AM, Scott Charlesworth <sdchar at gmail.com> wrote:
>How would listers describe the differences between Pauline Greek (say Galatians and Colossians) and that used by the author of Hebrews? Does the latter by virtue of its subject matter draw more on Septuagintal terminology? Of course both authors were using the Greek of their day and their vocabulary should be found in contemporaeous papyrus documents. But might Hebrews be expected to draw more heavily from the LXX pool than the Paulines ?
This is a rather superficial response, but off the "top of my head" what comes to mind is (a) a marked rhetorical bent in argumentation that goes far beyond what the unquestioned Pauline letters display (esp., say, in 1 Corinthians and Romans); (b) a sort of elaborate Platonic distinction between heavenly realities and earthly "shadows"; (c) what seems to me at times a rather awkward hypotactic concatenation of clauses which are harder to follow.
I would expect Cindy West, who made Hebrews her doctoral focus, can give a more meaningful response to your question, and as she has been active on this list
lately, I expect that she will.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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