[B-Greek] Fwd: Romans 16:1

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 14 22:54:11 EST 2010


Hi, Robert,

<Can we have "η διδασκαλος"?>

We can now.

<And for that matter, would a bad teacher be a διδασκακος?>

Yes.  And a VERY bad teacher would be a δυσ-διδασ-κακος.  (DYSDIDASKAKOS)

(not giving up my day job)
 Mark L
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From: "Daniel, Robert S" <rob.daniel at hp.com>
To: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>; Stephen Carlson 
<stemmatic at gmail.com>; Biblical Greek Mailing List <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, December 14, 2010 8:05:06 AM
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Fwd:  Romans 16:1

What about:

Didaskalos

Διδασκαλος

Can we have "η διδασκαλος"?

?
And for that matter, would a bad teacher be a διδασκακος?

Rob

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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Lightman
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 5:53 PM
To: Stephen Carlson; Biblical Greek Mailing List
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Fwd: Romans 16:1

<Certain nouns in Greek are "epicene" (or "common") in that their form
is the same for both masculine and feminine but their gender depends
on whom the noun is referring to.  DIAKONOS (aide) is one of them.
PARQENOS (virgin) is another.>

θεος (QEOS) is another one.  Even ανθρωπος (ANQRWPOS.)

(Hi, Stephen)

Mark L



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From: Stephen Carlson <stemmatic at gmail.com>
To: Biblical Greek Mailing List <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 5:46:44 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Fwd:  Romans 16:1

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Dony K. Donev <dony at cupandcross.com> wrote:
> I've been wandering recently, about the use of the word "deacon" (noun masc.
> sing.) in Romans 16:1-2
> in reference to Phoebe who was a woman. How common of usage that was in the
> Biblical Greek language?
> Does it stand out as wrong or was it commonly applied that way?

Certain nouns in Greek are "epicene" (or "common") in that their form
is the same for both masculine and feminine but their gender depends
on whom the noun is referring to.  DIAKONOS (aide) is one of them.
PARQENOS (virgin) is another.

Stephen
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Stephen C. Carlson
Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University
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