[B-Greek] Walking on Water
Patrick Narkinsky
patrick at narkinsky.com
Thu Mar 4 18:06:42 EST 2010
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Richard Lindeman <oblchurch at msn.com> wrote:
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?
>
Well, I'm not sure this qualifies as a "reputable source of Greek
scholarship" ... rather, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. But I first heard this
interpretation in a book entitled "The Word" by Irving Wallace about 25
years ago, when I was 12 years old. The book is one of those Mystery of Mar
Saba kind of books. The book's only significant virtue was that it first
got me, as a secular teenager, interested in New Testament Studies.
I since assumed that the interpretation was one of those 19th century
"rational" interpretations, which sought to make the Gospels more believable
by explaining away the miraculous. I'd ask him for his source. :)
Patrick Narkinsky
Newport News, VA
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