[B-Greek] LXX Genesis 1:2 - tohu as AORATOS
Eric S. Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Wed May 28 12:20:49 EDT 2008
So you're saying that AORISTOS is perhaps a more accurate translation of tohu
than AORATOS?
Which does indeed suggest exegesis or Platonizing going on in the LXX.
Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
On May 28, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Eric S. Weiss wrote:
> I would guess that a word related to hORIZW would better mean
> "undefined" for tohu
> than a word like AORATOS which is related to hORAW. But maybe they
> are related
> to each other.
But that is AORISTOS: ever heard of the "aorist" 'tense'? What French
calls "le passé indéfini"?
The root of hORIZW is hOROS, 'boundary'; there's no relationship to
fORA, the root of hORAW.
Eric S. Weiss
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