Re: Mk. 12:34b

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 10:11:14 EDT


At 9:26 AM -0700 4/5/00, Numberup@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>It's not the Good News (TEV) translation. Really, it sounds like
>another verse
>entirely: Matthew 12:28b, though the context is different from Mark
>12:34b.
>
>Solomon Landers
>Memra Institute for Biblical Research
>http://www.memrain.org
>
>"Maurice A. O'Sullivan" wrote:
>
>> I recently heard a reading from Mark 12, in which v. 34b --- traditionally
>> rendered as:
>> "You are not far from the kingdom of God." became " the kingdom of God
>> has overtaken you ".
>>
>> I would be grateful if anyone can identify the version for me; would it, I
>> wonder, be the Good News translation?

Yes, it's that response of Jesus on what his exorcisms imply; this is
generally thought a "Q" text which, though essentially the same in Mt and
Lk, takes a distinctive form in Luke:

Mt 12:28 EI DE EN PNEUMATI QEOU EGW EKBALLW TA DAIMONIA, ARA EFQASEN EF'
hUMAS hH BASILEIA TOU QEOU
Lk 11:20 EI DE EN DAKTULWi QEOU [EGW] EKBALLW TA DAIMONIA, ARA EFQASEN EF'
hUMAS hH BASILEIA TOU QEOU

I have long felt that FQANW is one of the strangest verbs in the Greek
language, and its usage in this text seems one of the strangest usages of
it; I take it as something akin to: "Then the Kingdom of God has arrived
here before you were aware of it!" This is one of those dominical sayings
that even the Jesus Seminar people color pink as very possibly authentic.
Can Jack Kilmon or Randall Buth or one of the Aramaic conoscenti say
whether the phrasing of ARA EFQASEN EF' hUMAS hH BASILEIA TOU QEOU reflects
some distinctive Aramaic expression?

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