[B-Greek] THIASARCHS
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 27 03:52:13 EST 2007
On Dec 26, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Anita Clerke wrote:
> Lucian of Samosata's work "The Passing of Peregrinus" has the
> following statement on pages 12-13 (paragraph 11), as found in The
> Loeb Classical Library, Lucian with an English Translation by AM
> Harmon Volume V, 1972:
>
> "...in a trice he made them all look like children; for he was
> prophet, cult-leader, head of the synagogue, and everything, all by
> himself."
> The Greek on the facing page has cult-leader as θιασἀρχης
> THIASARCHS.
>
> According to Van Voorst R Jesus Outside the New Testament. Eerdmans:
> Grand Rapids 2000, THIASARCHS does not appear in the GNT.
>
> Can someone please indicate if the word is used by any of the early
> christian writers, say before AD 390?
>
> I searched Justin's apology in Greek at http://
> patrologia.ct.aegean.gr/PG_Migne/Iustinus_PG%2006/Apologia.pdfand
> didn't find it there.
> Using the search engine within the Christian Classics Ethereal
> Library I did find "thiasarch" in the MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARPUS.
> CHAPTER XXIII., p 249. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/renan/
> hadrian_pius.xxv.html?highlight=thiasarch#highlight However here it
> was simply referring to Lucian's account: "About that time there
> lived a certain Peregrinus, a cynic philosopher of Parium, upon the
> Hellespont, who called himself Protéus, and in regard to whom people
> boasted of the facility with which he could assume any character, and
> undertake any adventure. Among these adventures was that of posing as
> a bishop and a martyr. Having begun life by committing the most
> frightful crimes, parricide even, he became a Christian, then a
> priest, a scribe, a prophet, a thiasarch, and chief of the synagogue."
>
> Jonathan Clerke
> clerke at humanperformance.cc
>
>
Searching TLG-E AD1-AD4 for the string QIASARC* produced only one match:
Lucianus Soph., De morte Peregrini, Sect. 11, l. 5
Elizabeth Kline
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