[B-Greek] John 18:37
Randall Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Mon Jan 8 02:20:14 EST 2007
>18:37 EIPEN OUN AUTW O PILATOS, OUKOUN BASILEUS EI SU ; APEKRIQH O
IHSOUS, SU LEGEIS OTI BASILEUS EIMI. EGW EIS TOUTO GEGENNHMAI KAI
EIS TOUTO ELHLUQA EIS TON KOSMON, INA MARTURHSW TH ALHQEINAS
This exchange between Pilate and Jesus has always seemed odd to me
because it seems so stilted. My range of reading in greek is limited
to the NT, LXX, and a limited amount of other attic and koine
sources. I'm sure someone else on the list can point to an example
from other texts of how this conversation should read. The OUKOUN
( not therefore ?) is used only here in the NT and is puzzling to
me. Everyone I have read reads it as , "So, you are a king..." Is
there another example of this kind of use somewhere else? Why does
Jesus respond SU LEGEIS OTI BASILEUS EIMI with a sort of ( to me at
least) indirect answer? Obviously I am not familiar with this kind
of conversation. What are the nuances behind the words?
David Rollins>
OUKOUN is a conversational word that has developed and picked up a
meaning that might be thought the opposite of it etymology. As a
positive question word it became a positive response. Isn't it? > So
it is. You will find the word frequent in philosophic discourses like
Epictetus. (I will leave the last sentence "SY LEGEIS" for the
commentaries. there is more than one way to read it.)
Randall Buth
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