OUAI = "DAMN"?

From: Mark Goodacre (M.S.Goodacre@bham.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 14 1998 - 06:53:34 EDT


The Scholars Version (the version produced and used by the Jesus Seminar)
translates OUAI hUMIN, normally translated "Woe to you . . .", as "damn you . .
." How do b-greekers feel about this? Their aim is to re-create the
impression that original readers and hearers would have had. MAKARIOI . . . in
the Beatitudes is translated "Congratulations . . ."

Mark
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