Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Yigal,

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
> >  >You cannot be seriously arguing from Greek usage to Hebrew meaning.
> >
> >  HH: Why not? I am quoting from a letter to the Hebrews. The letter is
> >  presumed to have a Jewish person for its author. You speak as though
> >  Jewish culture did not transcend language barriers.  It may be that Jews
> used Greek in one context, Aramaic
> >  in another, and Hebrew in another, but the culture itself would be
> >  much the same. And the ideas expressed in one language would have
> >  their counterparts in another language. If the Hebrews spoke of
> >  Abraham sowing seed in Sarah in Greek, they might speak and think
> >  similarly in any other language they happened to use.
> Harold,
>
> 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.


HH: There is no general acceptance that Paul wrote Hebrews. In 
academic circles, even conservative ones, it is more regularly 
assumed that he did not. And the writer, whether writing in Greek or 
not, was one person, who shared a culture with his addressees.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

> Yigal
>
>
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