Re: Baskets

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Fri Mar 19 1999 - 15:37:41 EST

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At 02:47 PM 3/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>A colleague has made what I take to be a highly untenable suggestion
>that HRAN KLASMATA DWDEKA KOFINWN PLHRWMATA in Mark 6:43 ought to be
>understood as "they took up fragments, twelve fillings of baskets"
>rather than "fillings of twelve baskets." He thinks there may have
>been 144 basketfulls of fragments--a basket for each apostle, and
>twelve fillings of these baskets.

such a reading is completely impossible.

jim

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