Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>]

Dear List,

I would also highly recommend for everyone on this list:

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Edited by G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academics, 
2007.
www.bakeracadmic.com

For those in England
Apollos (an imprint of Inter-Varsity Press)
Norton Street
Nottingham NG7 3HR England
email: ivp AT inpbooks.com
website: www.inpbooks.com

For the particular passages in question, Luke 4:18 and Isaiah 61:1 and 58:6, 
see
David W. Pao and Eckhard J. Schnabel, "Luke,"
pp 287-290.

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
To: <TedBro AT aol.com>; <randallbuth AT gmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the hellenization of isaiah


> Aramaic syntactical features influence the Greek of the Gospels throughout,.
> These features include verbs at beginning of sentences. joined clauses
> without conjunctions, parataxis, asyndeta and the use of KAI where Aramaic
> source materials (probably Aramaic notes) had waw consecutives.  In the case
> of Mark, the Latinisms are because this Aramaic speaking author, writing in
> Greek, is writing in Rome,
> or Italy, for a Latin speaking readership.  The reference to the woman in
> Tyre as "a Greek, racially a Syro-Phoenician.."  ἦν δὲ ἡ γυνὴ Ἑλληνίς
> Συροφοινίσσα τῷ γένει was written for Romans.
>
> I recommend:
> Joseph Fitzmyer, The Semitic Background of the New Testament, Eerdmans
> Matthew Black, An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts. Oxford
> University Press
> Maurice Casey, An Aramaic Approach to Q. Sources for the Gospels of Matthew
> and Luke. 2002, Society for New Testament Studies'
> Maurice Casey, Aramaic Sources of Mark's Gospel, 1998, Society for New
> Testament Studies.
> Maurice Casey, coming in December 2010
> https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_3200P5B6Z.HTM
>
> Maurice is currently conducting a colloqium on Jim West's "Biblical-Studies"
> group.
>
> Jack Kilmon
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <TedBro AT aol.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:25 AM
> To: <randallbuth AT gmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the hellenization of isaiah
>
> > Randall:
> >
> > I'm initially skeptical but open to look at evidence of semitisms in the
> > Gospels. One early question is whether "koine" Greek, as a spoken, living,
> > first  century "language" contained semitisms. In other words, when
> > Semitic
> > Peoples learned Greek, did elements (vocabulary, idiom, syntax) of their
> > ancestoral tongue bleed into the new language? If so, the presence of
> > semitic
> > traces in the NT text may not indicate a Hebrew or Aramaic Vorlage.
> >
> > Make sense?
> >
> > -Ted Brownstein
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/17/2010 2:47:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > randallbuth AT gmail.com writes:
> >
> > One  needs to distinguish sources, translated into Greek and possibly
> > used by  gospel writers from the gospel writers themselves.
> > Linguistic evidence in  gospels does point to Semitisms, and
> > specifically a Hebrew narrative (note  Aramaic) behind Mark and Luke.
> > Perhaps produced by Jerusalem church before  the canonical gospels,
> > like Qumran community that chose Hebrew, and perhaps  behind the Papias
> > statement, too.
> >
> > Randall  Buth
> >
> >
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