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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:52 -0500

At 01:18 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:

Paul, being a Roman citizen from Asia Minor, probably spoke Greek as his
mother toungue, and probably thought in Greek as well. Chances are that he
"imported" Greek expressions into his Hebrew or Aramaic, not the other way
around. Certainly, when writing Greek, he thought like a Greek.

Yigal

Paul in 99% likelihood was not the author of Hebrews. Whoever did write it, wrote excellent greek, excelled in the New Testament only by the author of 1 Peter. Nonetheless you are correct in observing that when writing Greek one thinks in Greek and including a loan word or two from Hebrew or Aramaic doesn't change that fact any more than someone occasionally inserting "vis-a-vis" makes them a fluent thinker in French.

Jim


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