[B-Greek] Who does the circumcision?
Tony Costa
tmcos at rogers.com
Tue Mar 30 16:40:10 EST 2004
Paul could have very well performed the rite of circumcision. He seems to
have excelled in the academies of the Judaism of his time and may have been
a rabbi himself , even though the NT never applies this term to him as it
does to Jesus in the Gospels. (eg.Jn 3:2) We have to be careful not to
confuse present rabbinic Judaism and its practices with the 1st century
Judaism that Paul was a part of. I think this question would be more
appropriate for the corpus-paul list.
Tony Costa
Toronto, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart Torbert" <Bart.Torbert at ihsenergy.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:38 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Who does the circumcision?
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> Check out this link:
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> The Rabbis can do circumcisions. So Paul might be the one who did the
> actual act on Timothy. Applying a cultural filter to a translation is
> good, if you understand not only the target culture, but the source one as
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> Does anyone have any references to ancient Jewish practices?
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> Bart Torbert
> bart.torbert at ihsenergy.com
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