[B-Greek] Narratio Iosephi

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Sat Feb 3 14:58:07 EST 2007


Bart Ehrman wrote:
>     In the apocryphal Gospel called the Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea is
> a statement about the nature of Judas Iscariot's discipleship:
>
>  
>
>             OUK HN DE MAQHTHS KATA PROSWPON TOU IHSOU, ALLA DOLWi
> PROETREPSANTO AUTON PAN TO PLHQOS TWN IOUDAIWN hINA AKOLOUQHSEI TWi IHSOU.
>
>  
>
>     What do you (y'all) make of the KATA PROSWPON?
>   


This sentence seems to be saying:  "He was not a disciple in the 
physical presence of Jesus (i.e., with the other disciples), but with 
deceit all the multitude of the Jews urged him on that he should follow 
Jesus.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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