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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:08:28 -0600

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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