[B-Greek] Thucydides & Acts

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Fri Mar 30 12:18:12 EST 2007


> And if someone wants something more first century, EN TH PRWTH  
> EKATONAETIA,a
> compromise would be something like book 18 of Josephus Antiquities.  
> There
> are enough Thucydidianisms in book 18 that it has been plausibly  
> suggested
> that Josephus (or his scribe) was studying Thoukydides while  
> writing that
> section of Antiquities.
 
Elizabet egrapse
>One thing I like about working in Thucydides is one can safely assume  
he never read the LXX or the Hebrew Bible. This allows you to forget  
about idioms of a semitic nature or allusions to the MT or LXX. This  
simplifies matters when compared to reading Philo or Josephus.>
 

I guess I'm not worried about being purer than Josephus. I just wish that I
could control all of the vocab that he could control. For 'purity' of 1st c
narrative style one could always read Chariton. As for Thoukydides,
sometimes he is artificially pendantic. I've read stuff that surely must
have messed with listener's ears. And Thoukydides may have meant to do that
on purpose. At least with Chariton "one can safely assume" that full and
clear comprehension was achieved. 

 

Randall Buth, PhD

Director, Biblical Language Center

www.BiblicalUlpan.org

buth at jerusalemschool.org

randallbuth at gmail.com

 



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