[B-Greek] What to read -Enchiridion Christian Paraphrases
John Wilking
jcwilking at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 19 19:02:06 EDT 2008
This isn't a grammatical question. I had never even heard of the proceedings from some of the early church councils. MacMullen indicates that the Greek has been "little visited". (I guess I'm being blown away by its contents.) Have these documents been a part of common knowledge?
John C. Wilking
--- On Fri, 7/18/08, John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What to read -Enchiridion Christian Paraphrases
> To: "Louis Sorenson" <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 3:15 PM
> I was just reading Ramsay MacMullen's Voting About God
> in Early Church Councils who says, concerning conciliar
> acta, "that a great deal of common speech is on
> display, because of the stenographic quality of the text.
> Nowhere else in the written record of antiquity is there a
> match for this. All sorts of grammatical constructions,
> word choices, meanings of words, and departures from a
> careful, educated style turn up in both the Greek and
> Latin." (p.10)
>
> John c. Wilking
>
> --- On Fri, 7/18/08, Louis Sorenson
> <llsorenson at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What to read -Enchiridion
> Christian Paraphrases
> > To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:45 AM
> > Mark Lightman wrote: > I agree that the Enchiridion
> > (Encheiridion, Manual, Handbook) is also worth
> reading.?
> > There is a recent critical edition which includes the
> > Christian paraphrases, which I would recommend because
> they
> > are a little easier than the originial. <
> >
> > The work he mentions is by Gerard Boter, 1999. The
> > Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian
> > Adaptations: Transmission & Critical Editions.
> Leiden:
> > Brill ($280). It contains the Enchiridion Greek text
> and
> > English translation and the Greek text of the three
> > Christian adaptations of the Enchiridion. GoogleBooks
> > Preview
> >
> > There is a commentary in French on the Paraphrasis
> > Christiana: Spanneut, Michel. 2007. Commentaire sur la
> > Paraphrase chrétienne du
> > Manuel d'Epictète. France: Les Editions du Cerf
> > (http://www.editionsducerf.fr -- I believe it has the
> Greek
> > text). Worldcat Le Éditions du Cerf
> >
> > Johann Schweighauser's 1800 Epicteteae Monumenta
> Tomus
> > V GoogleBooks has of both the Paraphrasis Christian
> and
> > Saint Nilus' adaptation. The Greek text of both
> > adaptations be found in clear new scans on the
> > LetsReadGreek Enchiridion bibliography page
> >
> (http://www.letsreadgreek.com/Epictetus/bibliography.htm#christianadaptations).
> > Paraphrasis Christiana LetsReadGreek pdf extract and
> > Nilus' Enchiridion LetsReadGreek pdf extract
> >
> > Louis Sorenson
> >
> >
> >
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