[B-Greek] Rom 4:1
Yancy Smith
yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 20 16:31:37 EDT 2009
Mitch,
N.T. Wright is a able scholar of Biblical and Hellenistic Greek, who has caught a lot of undeserved grief as of late. Much to the chagrin of many Greek scholars he is also an creative, innovative exegete and theologian. Alas, the two, Greek scholarship and innovative thinking do not always go together. I have been impressed with his solutions to long standing issues of Pauline exegesis, not simply in the broad brush where he shows broad acquaintance with literature and culture of the NT period, but with many details of the text. One in particular that might deserve the attention of B-Greek-ers is his way of solving the tangle of exegetical difficulties associated with Gal. 3:15-20 in his article, "The Seed and the Mediator: Galatians 3:15-20" in _The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology_.
While I do not swear by his interpretation of Romans 4:1 (I think the way it is read by Robert Jewett in his Hermeneia commentary on Romans is far superior), it is quite possible to read Rom. 4:1 as Wright or as Hays has read it.
Yancy
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mitch Larramore
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 1:31 PM
To: BG; Iver Larsen
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Rom 4:1
Iver:
Would anyone consider NT Wright's Greek scholarly? In my extensive reading, I've never seen a known Greek scholar cite NT Wright as any Greek authority. I'm not trying to be negatively critical, but I would be interested in any of the b-Greek scholars commenting on NT Wright's Greek. If he is a Greek scholar, he sure hides it well!
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org> wrote:
> From: Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Rom 4:1
> To: "BG" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 12:21 PM
> While reading N.T. Wright I came to
> his peculiar understanding of Rom 4:1.
>
> The text is:
>
> Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν εὑρηκέναι
> Ἀβραὰμ τὸν προπάτορα ἡμῶν
> κατὰ σάρκα;
> TI OUN EROUMEN hEURHKENAI ABRAAM TON PROPATORA hHMWN KATA
> SARKA?
>
> He says that the following translation "works extremely
> well with the Greek":
> "What then shall we say? Have we found Abraham to be our
> forefather according to
> the flesh?"
>
> Can anyone explain to me how he can suggest "we" as
> implicit subject for the
> perfect infinitive? I assume that Wright is not a member of
> b-Greek, but maybe
> some one else has accepted his exegesis and can defend it?
>
> How can he cut the sentence into two with an indicative
> form of "found" when the
> infinitive depends on EIPON? And how does that work
> extremely well with the
> Greek?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Iver Larsen
>
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