Re: follow up

From: David L. Moore (dvdmoore@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jul 02 1998 - 21:45:35 EDT


        I sent this earlier today, but I find that somehow it only went to Jim
West and not to the list. I'm forwarding it to the list now.

>Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 17:40:03 -0400
>To: Jim West <jwest@Highland.Net>
>From: "David L. Moore" <dvdmoore@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: follow up
>In-Reply-To: <1803-12290@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>
>At 12:49 PM 7/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>I have a follow up to my "tameion" query:
>>
>>anyone have any notion as to what the Aramaic word may have been if this
>>Matthean text is an ipsissima?
>>
>>To Nichael, the Lukan parallel is interesting, as are the others- but my
>>question is really focused on the possibility that Jesus is, with a wry
>>twist of humor, denigrating the Pharisees and their external show of piety.
>>Real piety is hidden, just like those things we do in the privy.
>
> Looking for scatological messages in the Bible can lead to some really
*strange* interpretations. One of these got into the first editions of the
_New English Bible_ Old Testament. My edition of NEB (1970) has the
offending passage at Judges 1:14. The idiosyncratic translation was
included in the final draft and so got into print, as I understand, because
a respected scholar (whom I won't name here) had become preoccupied with
scatalogical allusians and imagery and put his academic weight behind the
particular interpretation.
>
> Another possibility, in reference to Mat. 6:6, is that one who was
overflowing in the goods of this life might not have room in his TAMEION to
get inside and close the door. (That is, of course, taking TAMEION in its
commonly used Koine sense of "storeroom.") On the other hand, someone who
was down to his last bag of barley would have plenty of room to get into
the room, close the door and even get down prostrate on the floor,
providing it was a fairly good-sized TAMEION.
>
> I think it is worth noting that, in the only other NT reference where we
have this word in the singular (Lk. 12:24), it definitely means storeroom.
In the other two passages where it appears (Mat. 24:6; Lk. 12:3), it is
plural and means, generally, "private chambers."
>
>Regards to all,
>David Moore
>
>
David L. Moore
Miami, Florida, USA
E-mail: dvdmoore@ix.netcom.com
Home Page: http://members.aol.com/dvdmoore

            

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