From: Cindy Smith (cms@dragon.com)
Date: Fri Sep 04 1998 - 18:42:37 EDT
I'm curious about the meaning of ANAGNWSEI. For example,
1 Timothy 4:13 hEWS ERXOMAI, PROSEXE TH AVAGNWSEI,
TH PARAKLHSEI, TH DIDASKALIA.
NRSV translates this, "Until I arrive, give attention to the public
reading of scripture, to exhorting, to teaching."
Query: Does ANAGNWSEI always mean "public reading of scripture" or
can it mean simply "public reading" ? Certainly, many of the letters
read in the New Testament churches did _not_ later become scripture.
Compare 2 Corinthians 3:14 TH ANAGNWSEI THS PALAIAS DIAQHKHS, which
the NRSV translates, "when they hear the reading of the old covenant,"
Also Acts 8:28 HN TE UPOSTREFWN KAI KAQHMENOS EPI TOU hARMATOS AUTOU
KAI ANEGINWSKEN TON PROFHTHN hHSAIAN, which the NRSV translates, "and
was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet
Isaiah." Cf 8:28 and 8:32.
Also Acts 13:15 META DE THN ANAGWSIN TOU NOMOU KAI TWN PROFHTWN,
"After the reading of the law and the prophets,"
Also Acts 23:34 ANAGNOUS DE KAI EPERWTHSAS etc. which the NRSV
translates, "On reading the letter," etc.
Also Luke 4:16 KAI ANESTH ANAGNWNAI "he stood up to read"
Also Colossians 4:16 KAI hTAN ANAGNWSQH......KAI EN TH LAODIKEWN
EKKLESIA ANAGNWSQH, etc., "And when this letter has been read among
you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that
you read also the letter from Laodicea."
1 Thessalonians 5:27 ENORKIZW hUMAS TON KURION ANAGNWSQHVAI THN
EPISTOLHN PASIN TOIS ADELPHOIS. "I solemnly command you by the Lord
that this letter be read to all of them."
Acts 13:15 META DE THN ANAGNWSIN TOU NOMOU KAI TWN PROFHTWN
"After the reading of the law and the prophets,"
Compare also Nehemiah 8:8 KAI ANEGNWSAN EN BIBLIW NOMOU TOU THEOU KAI
EDIDASKEN ESDRAS KAI DIESTELLEN EN EPISTHMH KURIOU KAI SUNHKEN hO LAOS
EN TH ANAGNWSEI.
Then English translation as well as the Vulgate is completely
different, so I can only assume the Hebrew is different. This is the
Vulgate: et legerunt in libro legis Dei distincte et adposite ad
intellegendum et intellexerunt cum legeretur.
Jeremiah 43:8 (NRSV 36:8) KAI EPOIHSEN BAROUX KATA PANTA hA ENETEILATO
AUTW IEREMIAS TOU ANAGNWNAI EN TW BIBLIW LOGOUS KURIOU EN OIKW KURIOU.
And Baruch son of Neriah did all that the prophet Jeremiah ordered
him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD's
house.
Jeremiah 28:63 (NRSV 51:63) KAI ESTAI hOTAN PAUSH TOU ANAGINWSKEIN TO
BIBLION TOUTO "When you finish reading this scroll,"
Exodus 24:7 KAI LABWN TO BIBLION THS DIAQHKHS ANEGNW EIS TA hWTA TOU
LAOU, "Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the
hearing of the people;"
Deuteronomy 17:19; 31:11; Joshua 8:34-35; 2 Kings 5:6-7; 19:14; 22:8;
22:10; 22:16; 23:2; 2 Chronicles 34:18; 34:24; 34:30; Ezr 4:18; 4:23;
Nehemiah 8:3; 8:8; 8:18; 9:3; 13:1; Esther 6:1; Isaiah 29:11-12;
34:16; 37:14; Jeremiah 29:29; 36:6; 36:10; 36:13-15; 36:21; 36:23;
51:61; Daniel 5:8; 5:15-17. Matthew 12:3; 12:5; 19:4; 21:16; 21:42;
22:31; 27:37; Mark 2:25; 12:10; 12:26; 15:26; Luke 4:16; 6:3; 10:26;
John 19:19-20; Acts 13:27; 15:21; 15:31; 2 Cor. 1:13; 3:2; 3:14-15;
Ephesians 3:4; Colossians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:27; Baruch 1:3;
1:14; 1 Maccabees 5:14; 10:7; 14:19; 2 Maccabees 2:25; 6:12; 8:23;
11:34; 15:39; 1 Es 2:26; 2:30; 3:13; 3:15; 9:41; 9:48; 3 Mac 1:12;
4 Esdras 14:45; 4 Maccabees 18:11.
Compare hO ANAGINWSKWN "reader" Matthew 24:15; 13:14; 1 Esdras 8:8-9;
8:19;9:39; 9:42; 9:49
Compare 2 Maccabees 2:25 which uses the word ANAGINWSKEIN "to read"
apparently but what is the word for reader? Here is the full passage:
EFRNTISAMEN TOIS MEN BOULOMENOIS ANAGINWKSEIN PSUXAGWGIAN TOIS DE
FILOFRONOUSIN EIS TO DIA MNHMHS ANALABEIN EUKOPIAN TASIN DE TOIS
ENTUGXANOUSIN WFELEIAN. NRSV: "we have aimed to please thos who wish
to read, to make it wasy for those who are inclined to memorie, and to
profit all readers."
Cindy Smith
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