[B-Greek] Walking on Water

Richard Lindeman oblchurch at msn.com
Thu Mar 4 17:32:44 EST 2010


Mark & George:

Thanks for your comments.  This is helpful as it represents my own
viewpoint. However, as much as I disagree with my friend, I¹m not sure that
I would give this
entirely a zero. Perhaps a 0.1   - after all, it is usage that determines
language and not the other way around isn¹t it?

Suppose for example, that in the midst of writing his gospel St. Mark was
struck by a rock and dazed for only a moment. And in that moment he suddenly
waxed poetic, recalling an old Greek poem entitled ³PERIPATWN EPI TH
THALASSH² in which the poet uses this phrase to express the thought of
³Walking by the sea².

My friend is a pretty bright fellow normally and yet he insists that he
knows of a reputable source of Greek scholarship that upholds this notion of
Jesus ³walking by the sea² in Mark¹s gospel. So now let me ask this... Does
anyone know of anywhere in Greek literature where ³PERIPATWN EPI TH
THALASSH² is used in this way or could be legitimately translated in this
way or where he may have gotten this idea otherwise?

Thanks!

Rich Lindeman


On 3/4/10 1:43 PM, "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have a slightly different take on this than George does.
> On a scale of 1 to 1000, 1 being not even theoretically possible
> under any imagined scenario, and 1000 being metaphysical
> certitude, I would give this a zero.
> 
> Mark L
> 




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