From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 08:35:08 EST
At 10:17 AM +0100 12/5/00, Iver Larsen wrote:
>I would encourage those who have an interest in new ideas to look up the
>references
>and look at the Greek text afresh, rather than from the standpoint of English
>traditional translations. Maybe one should start with Luke 16:8, which NIV
>translates
>as follows: "For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with
>their own
>kind than are the people of the light." The Greek word GENEA is translated
>by NIV as
>"kind (of people)".
While I do appreciate hearing more about what the article here referenced
actually says, the above statement does appear to me somewhat curiously
phrased. I personally would encourage anyone who CAN read Greek "to look at
the Greek text of any passage under consideration afresh, rather than from
the standpoint of English traditional translations." I would earnestly hope
that a major preoccupation of B-Greek is "looking at the Greek text afresh,
rather than from the standpoint of English traditional translations"--and
yet the statement above is followed immediately with a reference to what I
would call "traditional" translations.
Moreover, just as a matter of taking the context seriously as well as the
range of meanings a phrase like hAUTH hH GENEA (not just the lone word
GENEA) has in different contexts throughout the Greek Bible and Hebrew or
Aramaic words that it may represent, it still strikes me as odd that one is
concerned to look for a non-eschatological sense to a word like GENEA where
it appears in what is so obviously an eschatological context.
--
Carl W. Conrad
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