From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 29 1998 - 06:26:20 EDT
At 11:40 PM -0400 6/28/98, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
>In Col 1:10, Paul wrote:
>
>PERIPATHSAI AXIWS TOU KURIOU EIS PASAN ARESKEIAN
>
>I had a professor in college tell us that this statement, according to a
>love letter found among the various Greek papyri which have been found,
>may mean something like "do everything for the sake of the one you
>love." I know it sounds like I'm being awfully devotional, but I'm
>actually trying to determine if this statement about the papyri is
>correct. I recently had easy access to a copy of Moulton and Milligan
>and I didn't see anything like that at all for ARESKEIAN, and I have no
>idea where this prof got this from. Can anyone confirm or deny, from
>some other source, whether this is
>a)a correct report about a papyrus letter containing this word that
>might mean that in its context,
I would think that one might very well run a quick search of the Duke
Database of Papyri (it's on the Packard Humanities Institute second CD-ROM)
for ARESKEIA, but unless it appears in a fragment sizable enough to discern
the context, I doubt it would be very helpful. The story sounds to me like
a purely apocryphal one, like the story I was told as an undergraduate
about the employee at a hotel in Delphi being told to polish a pair of
shoes using a present Greek imperative.
>b) and if so, where I can find the text of the love letter.
See above: simply do a word-search for ARESKEIA in the papyrus database.
> While I'm posting this, I have a separate question. In the Old Greek
>version of the Scriptures of Israel, and in the NT, narratives are often
>carried along by some form of GINOMAI DE. Can someone tell me what the
>most characteristic equivalent in most "secular" Greek historical works
>is? Thanks.
I suppose you mean the LXX phrase EGENETO DE ... KAI for the Hebrew Wa'YeHI
... Wa. I don't know that there's a simple formula that's comparable in
Greek historical prose that is regularly used like that LXX translation
phrase. One not uncommon usage is TUGCANW + participle, e.g.: KAI ETUCEN WN
EKEINOS hO ANHR TOTE EN AQHNAIS ... "And that man happened to be in Athens
at that time ..."
Carl W. Conrad
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