From: James Ernest (jernest@hendrickson.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 10:37:13 EST
Fair enough. Just one final meta-question: Do some list members presuppose
that for understanding the meaning of a particular Greek phrase in the Bible
(e.g., he archh ths ktisews) the application of modern linguistic theories
or of traditional grammatical categories (i.e., what kind of genitive is
this?) is more helpful than evidence of how ancient writers whose first
language was Greek and who work in similar semantic terrain (e.g., other NT
authors, or Didymus) assessed the possible range of meaning of the phrase?
Maybe the answer is "No, but the former approaches are also valuable, and
this list is devoted to them"--which is ok with me, though it seems a little
narrow. But if the answer is Yes, I confess myself befuddled.
James
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu]
|Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:23 PM
|To: Biblical Greek
|Subject: [b-greek] Re: BDAG at Rv 3:14 - Christ was the first creation
|now probable
|
|
|This thread has already, I think, crossed the line over into
|theological
|territory; IF it is to continue at all, it is going to have to stick
|tightly (i.e. more tightly than it has thus far) to Rev 3:14
|and not range
|abroad into Christology and NT Christological texts in general. At any
|rate, discussion on B-Greek needs to remain focused upon the
|Greek text at
|hand, and not range more broadly into general Biblical or doctrinal
|interpretation.
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