[B-Greek] How Markos reads the LXX (was future indicative inJonah 1:11 (Joseph Justiss)

Barry H. nebarry at verizon.net
Sat May 21 14:21:52 EDT 2011


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From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon at historian.net>
To: "Barry H." <nebarry at verizon.net>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] How Markos reads the LXX (was future indicative 
inJonah 1:11 (Joseph Justiss)


> I understand. Our ancient "God-fearers" like the rest of the population 
> was 95+% illiterate nor could afford a Codex Sinaiticus nor would be 
> interested in a text critical view of what a presbyteros was reading to 
> them.
> That is not the case in today's literate society.

You are advancing as confident fact what is in a great deal of dispute.

> One of my best examples of a translation that without appeal to Aramaic is 
> downright silly is Luke 14:26.  I will transliterate the Greek and 
> phoneticize the Aramaic since I am not sure Hebrew and Greek fonts unicode 
> here.

Jack, we don't have an Aramaic original.  I know it's a thing of yours, but 
retroversion to understand what someone might have said is a flawed 
methodology.  How do you know that Luke's Greek (which is perfectly 
understandable, good Greek) doesn't reflect the intent of what Jesus may 
have originally said?  Now, I know you can come up with some sort of 
defense, but really, you don't know, not for sure.  Your Aramaic is just a 
guess, really.  It may be a really educated, well thought out guess, but a 
guess nonetheless.

But I suspect we are getting into extra-B-Greek sort of issues, so I'll stop 
there and let you have the last word, if you like.

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