Metaphors in Greek

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 23 16:30:44 EST 1999





>From: Jack Kilmon 

>In the Aramaic idiom, lahMA (bread) was a metaphor
>for wisdom or teaching and "eating bread" for learning.  

Thanks, Jack, for this valuable and suggestive possibility.  The English 
metaphor, "Body of knowledge", still survives, of course.

The more I read the GNT and listen on this list, the more I am coming to 
the conclusion that the GNT, written in Greek by Jews, has major 
meanings that are Judaically imbedded, and that perhaps are not all that 
accessible to us.  I confess that our recent little excursion into 
classical Greek [via the cut off/castration thread ~ Epictetus??] seemed 
to me like a breath of very fresh translational air.

Do you have any more Aramaic or Hebraic metaphorical understandings for, 
say, body and blood?

Thanks again...

George


George Blaisdell
Roslyn, WA


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