[B-Greek] Koine Greek Kashruth?
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 12:27:13 EDT 2011
>Now it's the battle for the "kosher" Koine keyboard
It's not about where a person ends, it's about where someone starts
from when considering options. A person can choose whatever they want,
but it should be with good, full info. The next generation should not
be sent back to 'funky' just because the last generation started there.
. . .
> but I just can't go that step of delimiting my vocabulary and
writing style to a synchronic range that seems to me arbitrarily
proposed on the ground>
Communication is what counts. And most every syntactic structure
gets used somewhere.
However, it is quite heuristic to ask about changes in vocab
patterns over the centuries. If ORAN was not being used much,
why not? What was the replacement? (BLEPEIN). Why? And how and
why did YPAGEIN weave its way into the 'move' foray?
I find this like an adventure, trying to discover what was
common ground.
PS: there is a new, 10year theological/historical LXX lexical project
starting that will cover three perspectives for select vocab items:
a. the state of Greek with the word in the 3-2 cenut BCE.
b. how the LXX used the word, potential Jewish background usage.
c. impact and usage of the word 'downstream' up to 2n c. CE.
ERRWSO
Randall Buth
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