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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: jwest AT highland.net
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:42:22 -0600

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:52 -0500 Jim West <jwest AT highland.net> writes:
> 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
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> Jim West, ThD
> Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
> Quartz Hill School of Theology
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Oops! Ignore the previous. I overlooked the "not" in the sentence
regarding alleged Pauline authorship of Hebrews.

george
gfsomsel
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