[b-greek] TOU hHLIOU EKLIPONTOS

From: Richard Ghilardi (qodeshlayhvh@juno.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 13:03:11 EDT


Dear b-greekers,

KAI HN HDH hWSEI hWRA hEKTH KAI SKOTOS EGENETO EF' hOLHN THN GHN hEWS
hWRAS ENATHS TOU hHLIOU EKLIPONTOS... LOUK. 23:44f

My question is: What does TOU hHLIOU EKLIPONTOS mean? BDAG says: <<
Luke's diction is standard for description of an eclipse **be eclipsed**
>> and lists a number of sources where it has this meaning. Does
EKLEIPEIN always mean "eclipse" when used in association with hHLIOS? If
this is so in the extant sources as well as its proper meaning here, is
it really plausible that Luke conceived of a solar eclipse lasting 3
hours in one given location during the paschal new moon when the earth is
between the sun and the moon thus rendering a solar eclipse practically
impossible?

Has Luke committed a major blunder here -- a blunder which even the
scribes of a later period could easliy see through as witnessed by their
substitution of ESKOTISQH for EKLIPONTOS?

And finally, what right do we have to assign the meaning "the sun's light
failed" to TOU hHLIOU EKLIPONTOS if in every other occurence of the word
in association with hHLIOS it means "eclipsed"?

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh@juno.com
New Haven, CT USA
Nibai kaurno hwaiteis gadriusando in airtha gaswiltith,
silbo ainata aflifnith: ith jabai gaswiltith, manag akran bairith.

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