[B-Greek] TETRADOS?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 10 11:18:59 EST 2007


Using the Johanine chronology, understanding it as the fourth day of the week would straighten out the chronology.  I've made the diagram asymetric in hopes of having it come through the list without being scrambled, but should it nevertheless be scrambled, please attempt to understand what was intended.

Days of week
  1      2     3       4      5                     6                 7
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs                 Fri               Sat  
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Prior to arrest
 5th  4th    3rd   2nd                                                           
_____________________________________________

Events
                               Last Supper       Pilate
                               Arrest                Scourging
                               High Priest         Crucifixion

If Jesus was arrested on a Thursday and taken before Pilate the following day and crucified the same day then the third day before his arrest would have been a Tuesday.  That would put the fourth day three days prior to the crucifixion using an inclusive reckoning of days and the action of the third day before his arrest would then be four days prior to the crucifixion.  The appearance before Pilate would need to be on the morning following his arrest which is signalled by the cock's crow.

george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Bart Ehrman <behrman at email.unc.edu>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:28:23 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] TETRADOS?


In the Narratio Iosephi there is a strange chronology of events:  the
action of 1:4 takes place on the third day before Jesus is arrested (THi
TRITHi hHMERAi PRO TOU KRATHQHNAI TON IHSOUN), and the next paragraph takes
place on the next day:



            THi DE EPAURION, hHMERAi THS TETRADOS, EISHNEGKAN AUTON hWRAi
ENATHi EIS THN AULHN TOU KAIAPHA.



    At first I thought this was just a confused chronology: on the third day
and then on the fourth day (which would be backwards, since the next day
would actually be the second day "before his arrest").  But then I wondered
if TETRADOS might simply mean the fourth day of the week, Wednesday.



    Any thoughts?



-- Bart Ehrman



Bart D. Ehrman

James A. Gray Professor

Department  of Religious Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill







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