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  • From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: C-P: Paul and Plato
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:34:31 -0400


> From: Jeffrey B. Gibson
>
> I think is is entirely misleading to think that when Paul says
> that SARX (whether
> flesh is a good translation is another question) he is doing
> what Plato does when he
> speaks of the evil body. Paul is not talking about a body, let
> alone -- as Plato
> inclines towards doing -- that material things such as the body
> are evil. After all,
> Paul can claim that those who are enfleshed in a body or, more
> accurately, who are
> bodies are in the Spirit. And this is something Plato could
> hardly claim -- unless the
> person he was speaking of was dead and his soul had gone back to
> the world of the
> forms.
>
But the actual source for Paul's non neutral use of
> SARX (it can simple
> mean "the human race, cf. Gal 2:16; 1 Cor 1:29; Rom 3:20) --
> especially his use of the
> term as a cipher for fallen humanity or (from the point of view
> of the moral stance
> designated Spirit) an ethically negative sphere is the moral and
> not ontological
> dualism of Qumran and Jewish apocalyptic -- see 1QS 11:7, 9, 12;
> 1 QM 4:3; Test.
> Judah 19:4; T. Zeb. 9:7).

I don't understand this. What is ontological dualism? Sorry.

Liz

Lisbeth S. Fried
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
New York University
51 Washington Sq. S.
New York, NY 10012
lqf9256 AT is3.nyu.edu
lizfried AT umich.edu





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