[B-Greek] Acts 16,3
Mont Cessna
montc at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 30 13:42:50 EST 2004
Dear Bart,
I think you have a good point. There was no doubt that Paul was a man of
talents and with his being in charge of the movement of God's word, I
think that it would be logical for him to perform the circumcision
himself. He called Timothy his son. To have Timothy's Father in the word
circumcise him makes sense to me. Paul performing the act would have
more impact upon those who were there as witnesses and lend greater
credibility to Timothy's standing among the Jews.
Mont Cessna, Sr.
Harrisburg, PA
montc at earthlink.net
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bart Torbert
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Acts 16,3
>From doing some quick research on the web, a mohel does not have to be
a
Rabbi. But many of the mohelim (plural for mohel) are Rabbis or
Cantors.
Of those who advertise their services, those who are not clergy seem to
be
physicians. But from an unscientific sampling of the hits I got, the
latter are few in number, most mohelim these days are clergy.
In either case, to be certified as a mohel, the candidate is required to
take special religious and medical training. You don't have to be a
member
of the clergy or a physician to become a mohel.
So the question is still open as to whether Paul was a mohel. He might
have been. He seemed to be a jack-of-all-trades as far as Jewishness is
concerned.
Unless we can find NT references that would indicate if Paul was or was
not
a mohel, I think the question of who circumcised Timothy can not be
defiantly answered.
Or maybe we are thinking too hard on the problem. Maybe we read the
text
in its simpliest form and say that Paul did the actual work as strictly
recorded because the culture would certainly allow for that.
Bart Torbert
bart.torbert at ihsenergy.com
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