[B-Greek] EN TWi EQNEI MOU Acts 26:4--what nation?

Webb Mealy webb at selftest.net
Mon Dec 10 23:46:50 EST 2007


EN TWi EQNEI MOU EN TE hIEROSOLUMOIS (Acts 26:4)

 

Surely the expression EN TWi EQNEI MOU here means among the Jewish people,
as opposed, for example, to among the Cicilians? I wasn’t surprised to find
that Lattimore, not an expert on matters of Judaism or New Testament
studies, translated the phrase, 

“both in my own country and in Jerusalem”, 

 

presumably being influenced by the information in Acts that Paul was born in
Tarsus (Acts 22:3). But I can’t imagine a Jew saying TO EQNOS
MOU—particularly to another Jew, even a “half-Jew” like Agrippa—and meaning
anything other than the people of Israel. Right?? But then again, no less a
translation than TEV renders it, “at first in my own country and then in
Jerusalem”. 

 

Perhaps this question straddles or lies outside the borders of the scope of
the list. I welcome input—I leave it to people’s discretion whether to
answer on- or off-list. 

 

Thanks,

 

Webb Mealy


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