[B-Greek] on "gloss"

Wounded Ego woundedegomusic at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 00:12:44 EDT 2006


HH, at the risk of making a mountain out of a molehill....I'm not entirely
sure that your interpretation of Encarta is correct. It does not seem to be
saying that a translation is a gloss but rather that if you provide a
translation as explanation of an unfamiliar word then you are providing a
gloss.

For example, each word in the KJV is not a gloss for the Greek source text.
Those are just translations. A gloss would only be a translation provided in
explanation of an unfamiliar word, such as these:

Mt 1:23  Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with
us.
Mr 5:41  And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha
cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
Mr 15:22  And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being
interpreted, The place of a skull.
Mr 15:34  And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?
Joh 1:38  Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them,
What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being
interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
Joh 1:41  He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We
have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
Ac 4:36  And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is,
being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of
Cyprus,

Ie: the word "translation" does appear in the citation from Encarta but
there are only two main entries and the citation appears in the context of
the first entry: "explanatory phrase."
 
I am inclined to think that the usage "gloss" in the jargon of NT studies is
used most often in a way that the dictionaries do not recognize.

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong about this.

William Ross
VGB, Argentina








HH: The word "gloss" is pretty flexible according to Encarta Dictionary:

gloss: noun  (plural gloss.es)
Definition:
 
1. explanatory phrase: a short definition, explanation, or translation 
of a word or phrase that may be unfamiliar to the reader, often located 
in a margin or collected in an appendix or glossary

2. interpretation: an interpretation or explanation of something
Her account provides an interesting gloss on the theme of widowhood

HH: Note that a translation of a word counts as a gloss, as does a short 
definition or explanation.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard


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