πλανάω — Is There More Wisdom?
Posted: July 20th, 2011, 5:39 am
First of all, I have to thank Jonathan and the others (when I left, I would have said "Carl and Carlton", I think, though the leadership may have changed over the past decade) who have kept this light burning for so many years. May this be reckoned to you as righteousness!
In working through the Epistle of James, I've hit a few places where I'd have expected to find fuller, more satisfactory resources, about which I'll be posting here. One of the topics on which I haven't seen as much rich, sound writing as I'd have expected concerns the word πλανάω and its various forms (and here I'm concerned with the usage in general, not just in James 1:16 and 5:19, nor even only in the NT). On the surface, there's no great issue in the Greek. It's pretty easy to tell what's going on from the forms and contexts, though the aorist forms touch on the issue of middle and passive (but in the version of Carl's essay that I have on hand, πλανάω doesn't come up, I think).
There's a difficulty in communicating succinctly in English the ways that the Greek oscillates and resonates in sense between its geographical ("wander") and cognitive ("mislead") and active and m/p usages. Of course, that's a problem relative to English, not to the Greek, but since it's my job as a teacher to be able to give as clear an account of such things, I'd like to be able to draw on more expansive wisdom than my own. Is anyone on-list aware of a good, thorough treatment of πλανάω apart from the usual, obvious sources (BDAG, LSJG, L&N, TDNT, EDNT, works on James, etc.)?
Thanks for your work in sustaining B-Greek, and for your kindness in offering counsel!
AKMA
A K M Adam
Lecturer in New Testament / Clerk to Trinity College Senate
School of Critical Studies
University of Glasgow
University Web <http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/theology/staff/dradam/>
Blog: <http://akma.disseminary.org>
The University of Glasgow, registered charity number SC004401
Trinity College Glasgow (Church of Scotland) - commonly known as Trinity College - is a Registered Scottish Charity Number SC015372
In working through the Epistle of James, I've hit a few places where I'd have expected to find fuller, more satisfactory resources, about which I'll be posting here. One of the topics on which I haven't seen as much rich, sound writing as I'd have expected concerns the word πλανάω and its various forms (and here I'm concerned with the usage in general, not just in James 1:16 and 5:19, nor even only in the NT). On the surface, there's no great issue in the Greek. It's pretty easy to tell what's going on from the forms and contexts, though the aorist forms touch on the issue of middle and passive (but in the version of Carl's essay that I have on hand, πλανάω doesn't come up, I think).
There's a difficulty in communicating succinctly in English the ways that the Greek oscillates and resonates in sense between its geographical ("wander") and cognitive ("mislead") and active and m/p usages. Of course, that's a problem relative to English, not to the Greek, but since it's my job as a teacher to be able to give as clear an account of such things, I'd like to be able to draw on more expansive wisdom than my own. Is anyone on-list aware of a good, thorough treatment of πλανάω apart from the usual, obvious sources (BDAG, LSJG, L&N, TDNT, EDNT, works on James, etc.)?
Thanks for your work in sustaining B-Greek, and for your kindness in offering counsel!
AKMA
A K M Adam
Lecturer in New Testament / Clerk to Trinity College Senate
School of Critical Studies
University of Glasgow
University Web <http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/theology/staff/dradam/>
Blog: <http://akma.disseminary.org>
The University of Glasgow, registered charity number SC004401
Trinity College Glasgow (Church of Scotland) - commonly known as Trinity College - is a Registered Scottish Charity Number SC015372