[B-Greek] Full meaning of the Greek word "CHRISTOS"
Curtis Hinson
curtis at curtishinson.com
Sun May 27 17:11:08 EDT 2007
The personal name ascribed to Jesus? I hear the word used that way
frequently in English -- no doubt we all have talked to people who don't
even know it's a title and not a surname like "Smith". But at least in
NT usage, I very much doubt it's a personal name ascribed to Jesus
anymore than we think that "King" was Henry VIII's first name.
I'd say though that as NT tradition develops, the person of Jesus is so
tied up with the identity of the Messiah that the words are used
together in that way without any article or elaboration, possibly as a
kind of shorthand.
Of course it seems that non-Jews didn't relate to the word CHRISTOS,
considering the letter from Pliny the Younger to Trajan about 112 AD and
several similar blunders. But one could hardly expect that kind of
ignorance from NT authors themselves.
Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
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Carl W. Conrad wrote the following on 5/26/2007 10:51 AM:
> On May 26, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Carl Unger wrote:
>
>
>> If anyone has time I would like to know a full meaning of the word
>> CHRISTOS
>> the word for Christ in the context of the epistles.
>> I do know this isn't a hermeneutics mailing list but it's ok if
>> it's related
>>
>
> It's NOT OK to go into hermeneutics as such on a Greek word -- i.e.,
> we're not going to talk about Christology when seeking to ascertain
> the meaning of the Greek word CRISTOS (Χριστός) in any part of
> the NT text corpus. That said, I think it's safe to say (and this is
> what you'll find constated in BDAG) that the word is used in two
> ways: (1) as a title with the sense "fulfiller of Israelite
> expectation of a deliverer, the Anointed One, the Messiah, the
> Christ," and (2) "the personal name ascribed to Jesus."
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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