[B-Greek] Eric Sowell on reading unfamiliar Greek

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 07:07:08 EDT 2008


EYXARISTW

Lightman EGRAPSE

> Buth egrapse:
>
> "And the friends need to start discussing this in Greek, and they will
> need words 'that aren't found in the Bible' to quote Simon and Garfunkel."
>
> Randall,
>
> I appreciate these and all your thoughts, but the correct quote is
>
> DIABOLLOMAI KAI BLASFHMOUMAI.  AKOUW LOGWN
> hWN OUDEPOTE EN TAIS GRAFAIS HKOUSA.
>
> "I get slandered, libeled; I hear words I never heard in the Bible."
>
> Notice how Professor Simon supports your view that Bible words
> are things you "hear," not read....
>
> Mark L.
>
> NAI, DEI HMAS AKOYEIN TOYS LOGOYS.
And professor Paul is correct that the words are not heard,
at least he would never have heard them,
since they are never read in the synagogue.
It's also nice how Paul used the middle structure in English for
what would be a middle structure of Greek.

[[BTW,   We may have a USA-Ersamusism, here,
though one example in solitude is insufficient, and analogy to
DIABOLOS would explain the O, but not the double LL.
DIABOLLOMAI for DIABALLOMAI.
1st c. mouth/ears would process these differently,
but would also be able to "hear" DIABALLOME,
should someone wax illiterately.]]




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