[B-Greek] John 3:3-4 (was Ambiguity)

Christophe Rico ricochristophe at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 09:01:59 EST 2010


I have been very interested by the discussion about the meaning of ANWTHEN
in the dialog with Nicodemus. There are two key articles that have been
published recently upon this subject by Pierre-Marin BOUCHER (alas in
French, but I guess that some of us are able to read French) :


2008-a                              « Gennhqh/nai a;nwqen: la valeur de
l’adverbe a;nwqen en Jn 3,3 et 7. Ie partie. La réception chrétienne », *Revue
Biblique*  115-2, 191-215.

2008-b                              « Gennhqh/nai a;nwqen: la valeur de
l’adverbe a;nwqen en Jn 3,3 et 7. IIe  partie. Les acceptions du terme
a;nwqen en grec classique et koinè non sémitisé »,  *Revue Biblique*  115-4,
568-595.



The first article deals with the patristic reception of this dialog : all
the Greek Fathers

who have commented the text interpret ANWTHEN as meaning "from above".

The article gives the translations of 6 important commentaries of that text.
It also

 deals with the Syriac translations of that passage and shows that the Vetus
Syra

and another ancient Syriac translation gave the equivalent ܡܢ ܠܥܠ which
means

"from above".



Christophe Rico





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