From: Steven Cox (scox@ns1.chinaonline.com.cn.net)
Date: Sun Feb 15 1998 - 09:37:51 EST
Re MIAS GUNAIKOS ANDRA (1Tim3:2) and hENOS ANDROS GUNH (5:9).
Thanks to all who've posted on this fascinating thread.
1 I'd like to ask the classicists if either MIAS GUNAIKOS ANDRA
or hENOS ANDROS GUNH occur in non b-greek texts in a context
that could narrow down the field among the following:
- Not a polygamist or polyandrist
- Not a remarried widower or widow
- Not a remarried divorcer or divorcee
- Not a flirt (Ward Powers' suggestion is appealing)
2 And for anyone who knows more about 1st Century Asia Minor:
Is it possible that hENOS ANDROS GUNH was only a check to make
sure that a "widow" applying for welfare did not actually have
a previous husband still living? (I read somewhere that divorce
was just as commonplace among Greeks as Jews but typically can't
remember the source..)
Regards
Steven
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