From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Sat Oct 24 1998 - 17:33:53 EDT
At 07:38 PM 10/24/98 +0000, you wrote:
> Is the above word ever translated as the "grave?" I know a fellow who
claims such, but I know of no scholarly work that would translate
"paradeisos" as the grave. Any comments appreciated. Thank you, Bob Marden
>---
Bob,
I have never heard anyone suggest such a thing.
I have in front of me TDNT (which, contrary to the opinion of some- a la
Barr- is still the most remarkable work of scholarship of this century)...
The word is a loan from Persian meaning "an enclosure, a park, an enclosed
garden". This article- written by Joachim Jeremias (we all need to take our
hats of to this one!!!!), spans pages 765-773.
Take a look. In a very cursory overlook I cannot find any such notion as the
one presented above (i.e.- paradise = grave). I suspect that someone has
simply heard something somewhere (on the radio or TBN perhaps ???) and taken
it as so. It isnt.
Best,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net
de mortuis nihil nisi baloni!
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