At 12:43 PM 1/4/97 -0500, Harry_Harm@sil.org wrote:
>I encourage people to read or reread D.A.Carson's excellent book,
>"Exegetical Fallacies", which is published by Baker. Chapter 1 is on
>"Word-Study Fallacies" and on pages 29-30 he discusses monogenhs.
>
>This is an excellent book which I find myself returning to again and
>again. And each time I find my own exegetical fallacies.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Harry :{)
>
TTD: While I second Harry's statement about D.A. Carson's book _Exegetical
Fallacies_, Carson's explanation is bent towards the type of
scientific-etymological approach that has been going on all day now
regarding which side of the coin should MONOGHNHS fall on: 'unique one' or
'begotten' i.e., caused/created by something other than itself.
Personally, I have asked myself the question "what is so troublesome in
reading 'monoghnhs' or monoghnhs qeos' as the latter option above?" While
I do not claim to be a patristic scholar, this is what I can remember
'monoghnhs' as meaning to Justin Martyr and Origen.
My point is that I think we all should remember that our contemporary
hermeneutical approaches are different from the ante-Nicene fathers. I do
not ever remember Justin or Origen ever spliting hairs about the
scientific-etymological appraoch to the meaning of a Greek word, unless, of
course, the ALLEGORICAL method was being used to give meaning. And these
allegorical approaches are far from scientific.
Peace and Love,
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Near Eastern specialist and Egyptologist. . .are too aware of the
isolationism often seen in traditional classics--or more precisely in
studies of Greek civilization--with its emphasis on the events of a
relatively short period, primarily in a particular exemplar of a single
group of cultures. Studies that appear to see fifth-century B.C.E Athens as
the defining experience of all civilization puzzle those whose interest lie
in other areas of the Mediterranean antiquity, and still more those
concerned with other regions of the world.
"On The Aims And Methods of Black Athena"
by John Baines in Black Athena Revisited