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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