[B-Greek] Acts 2:22

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Jan 3 13:02:25 EST 2011


On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Ellen Adams wrote:

> Hi.
> This is Ellen Adams (housewife), still alive and well. Happy New Year to all.
> 
> Someone at church asked about Acts 2:22
> ?????? ??????????, ???????? ???? ?????? ???????. ?????? ??? ?????????, ????? ??? ??? ???? ?????????????? ??? ???? ???????? ??? ?????? ??? ???????? ??? ??????? ??' ????? ? ???? ?? ???? ????, ????? ??? ????? ??????,
> They particularly wondered what ??????????????  meant. Instead of defining the word, I described it by citing the Old Testament example of Aaron's rod budding? Is that a good example?
> Anyone have a better way to explain it?

Ellen, welcome back after lo, these many years. But there's a problem here: you're evidently pasting Greek text from one of those old pre-Unicode Greek fonts, and it shows up on my screen -- and probably on most reader's screens -- as a sequence of question-marks punctuated by commas and periods and spaces. There's no know what ??????????????  means because we don't know what Greek ??????????????  represents. We've always had a requirement that those who cite the Greek text in a Greek font should cite the same text at the same time using the B-Greek transliteration scheme or some recognizable transliteration scheme. So: once we know what part of the Greek text of Acts 2:22 you're asking about, we won't have any idea how to respond.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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