From: Steven Cox (scox@Mail.Sparkice.COM.CN)
Date: Tue Jul 14 1998 - 21:34:40 EDT
Not wanting to show my socialist side but I have long had a bit of a problem
with Paul's 3 uses of PAIDAGWGOS. Are we supposed to think that
rich-boy Paul had his own PAIDAGWGOS in Tarsus and felt no embarrassment
about flaunting this in front of the Galatians and Corinthians??
BAGD MM and LSJ illustrate the kind of attendant that it seems only the
super-rich slave owning classes could afford to employ. Maybe this is Paul's
point as it emphasizes the super-priviledged position of the Jews in having
the law (Gal3:24) yet 1Co4:15 'a thousand instructors in Christ' doesn't
imply
this (does it?).
Wild suggestion:
Is it possible that Paul has a different perhaps synagogal connection in
mind than the Greek PAIDAGWGOS? Is it conceivable that for example
the synagogue provided a PAIDAGWGOS to tutor all the boys in the
town (or lead them to the Synagogue school) for free - or at the shared
expense of all the parents?
I note that BAGD "Common as loanword in rabbinica - S Krauss Griech. und
Lat. Lehnworter in Talmud usw" (er, Mr Gingrich, how did 'und so weiter'
not get translated into etc. or ktl.? Guess it must be part of Krauss'
title)
Does anyone know more about the Talmudic use of the word, it may illustrate
pre-Rabbinic Jewish use in Palestine better than Philo does?
Regards
Steven
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