[B-Greek] EINAI TON CRISTON IHSOUN, Act 18:5
Webb Mealy
webb at selftest.net
Tue Nov 13 17:25:11 EST 2007
To complicate matters, hO CRISTOS functions not just as a title, like
"king", but also as the name/descriptor for a mysterious personage that Jews
believe in, but whose human identity they don't know. So it's not so much
like saying, "Jesus is king" as like saying, "Bruce Wayne is Batman". The
latter can be reversed: "Batman is Bruce Wayne!" but the former cannot.
Webb Mealy
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl Conrad
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:35 PM
To: Elizabeth Kline
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] EINAI TON CRISTON IHSOUN, Act 18:5
On Nov 13, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Carl Conrad wrote:
> I have the e-text of Wallace, but after reading through it, I really
> don't think what he says is conclusive; it seems to me that he's
> reasonably honest here in recognizing that the choice between
> alternative ways of understanding the Greek in these passages may be
> subjective or arbitrary rather than clearly resolved by unquestionable
> criteria. My own subjective choice is "that Jesus is the Christ" --
> and I guess the criterion I prefer to go with is that the predicate
> term is the one marked by the article. "Ya pays yer money and ya takes
> yer choice."
I repent me (somewhat); the choice may be subjective, but I'll stick
with it; what I'd change is my reason for making the choice: it is
that TON CRISTON is a title while IHSOUN is an individual person.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at ioa.com or cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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