[B-Greek] Iver Larsen on Rom 4:1

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Thu Sep 23 23:49:16 EDT 2010


Dear Stephen,

I do not think I overstated my case.

But I would be delighted if you or Richard Hays would present linguistic or 
contextual evidence and arguments in support of the Lenski/Hays/Wright 
hypothesis here on this list. You did not take part in the discussion last year.

Iver Larsen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Carlson" <stemmatic at gmail.com>
To: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
Cc: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: 23. september 2010 19:21
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Iver Larsen on Rom 4:1


> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>> I don't think that the Hays-Wright view, "that we have found Abraham ... "
>> fared very well in any of these exchanges -- for good reasons.
>
> That may be the case, but I think that Iver has overstated it when he
> wrote about the Hays reading:
>
> "However, this is not a possible rendering of the Greek text, and
> certainly not accurate."
>
> On the contrary, I think there is fair and reasonable disagreement
> about Rom 4:1.
>
> Stephen Carlson
>
> Obligatory disclaimer: I'm at Duke and Hays is one of my teachers.
> --
> Stephen C. Carlson
> Graduate Program in Religion
> Duke University




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