From: Bart Ehrman (behrman@email.unc.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 18:14:17 EDT
In that oh so long ninth Similitude, the Shepherd is explaining to
Hermas the significance of the twelve mountains that he saw. I'm trying
to figure out if it's possible to translate the passage about the first
mountain without giving it modern racist overtones (which would have been
foreign to the world of the text). The passage reads something like:
The believers from the first mountain, which was black, are like
this: they are apostates and blasphemers against the Lord and betrayers
of the slaves of God. There is no repentance for these, but
death. This is why they are black, because their race also is lawless.
The last bit is: KAI DIA TOUTO KAI MELANES EISI, KAI GAR TO GENOS AUTWN
ANOMON ESTIN.
I'm eager to give a translation that sticks to the text. Any
suggestions?
-- Bart D. Ehrman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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