From: Eric Weiss (eweiss@acf.dhhs.gov)
Date: Sat Jul 20 1996 - 14:58:12 EDT
David Alan Black, LINGUISTICS FOR STUDENTS OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK (Second
Edition), states (p. 155):
Modern Greek...has an important contribution to make to the study of
Koine.... For example, the word PARASKEUH (John 19:14,31,42) is the
Modern Greek word for "Friday." This fact supports the
interpretation that the expression "the preparation (PARASKEUH) of
the passover" means "Friday in passover week," rather than "the day
before passover."
What is the scholarly consensus or opinion about this? It seems this would
be a simple way to explain the supposed "discrepancy" between GJohn and the
Synoptics re: the day of the crucifixion/the day of the Passover/Last
Supper, without having to resort to suggestions that Jesus' group used a
different calendar or that the author of GJohn purposely portrayed Jesus'
crucifixion as taking place at the time of the sacrifice of the Passover
lambs to equate Him with it, even though the Synoptics show him as being
crucified the day AFTER the sacrifice. (If I recall correctly, Alfred
Edersheim attempts to reconcile this by explaining that Jesus was crucified
during the sacrifice of the 2nd-day-of-Passover Chagigah).
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