From: Peter Phillips (p.m.phillips@cliff.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 18 1998 - 07:08:28 EST
You know, this makes me think - the Ark is evidently a sign of the Christian church - so perhaps there is a reference here that the church was pre-existent a bit like Torah and so on. That we should not call the Pope/Archbishop of Canterbury/Billy Graham 'leader' but rather Father Noah and that those under whoever should be called Shem Ham and Japheth.
EN ARCHHI
EN ARXHI
EN ARCHI
but of course never EN ARKHI
Yours feeling-like-its-Friday...
Pete Phillips
New Testament/IT
Cliff College, Sheffield, UK
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From: Carl W. Conrad [SMTP:cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu]
Sent: 18 March 1998 11:53
To: Peter Phillips
Cc: Kyrychenko; 'dalmatia@eburg.com'; B-GREEK
Subject: RE: John 1:1 EN ARQH
At 2:06 AM -0600 3/18/98, Peter Phillips wrote:
>I am getting a little exasperated by all these posts on ARXHI in John 1.
>I am at a loss as to why geographical terms are being incorporated into
>this word's semantic domain. Why are we using 'boundary-less', 'open
>vastess' and all such signifiers.<
I'm also fascinated by the broad range of transliteration-schemes for this
little Greek word meaning variously, "beginning," "primacy,"
"principality," "empire," KTL. I'm inclined to think that's been more
illuminating than the thread itself. I find myself wondering whether to
pronounce this word "are-they,"arks-hay," "archay," and I'm still waiting
for the definitive pronunciation. ;-)
Carl W. Conrad
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