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[Don Garlington <dongarlington AT yahoo.com>]

Dear Prof. Kraft,

I have defended the older translation of hierosulein,
actually following Cranfield and others, in a piece
entitled "HIEROSULEIN and the Idolatry of Israel
(Romans 2.22)," NTS 36 (1990): 142-51. My thesis was
that Paul has in view the "sacrilege" of idolatry,
i.e., the idolatry of elevating the Torah to a
position of unwarranted devotion. This line is taken
up and seconded by Fitzmyer, Romans, 318.

Best regards,

Don
Tyndale Seminary, Toronto





--- Robert Kraft <kraft AT ccat.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> As a tangent to the current thread on Romans 1-2,
> I'm wondering why recent
> translations of Rom 2.22 seem to have moved to a
> highly etymological translation
> in preferring "rob temples" to the older KJV (etc)
> "commit sacrilege"? Do we
> have much evidence of Jews/Judeans literally robbing
> temple treasuries or
> desecrating temple images and sites? LJS gives both
> meanings, as does BAGD (with
> an unexplained preference for the former). Ed Krentz
> did an article on this in
> 1990, which I haven't read (or at least, don't
> recall the details of), but which
> presumably (judging from the BAGD listing) argues
> for the more idiomatic "act
> irreverently" or the like. That also seems more
> likely to me, without having 
> done much homework on the issue.
> 
> My question, amid all that rambling, is whether the
> claim that in Paul's time 
> there were reports or traditions about Jewish
> desecration of temples 
> (presumably pagan) can be sustained. (Nevermind that
> the text might not be 
> making such an actual claim; just run, for the sake
> of investigation, with the 
> assumption that it is actually calling some
> Judeans/Jews "temple-robbers" in 
> some sense of the Greek term.) 
> 
> Bob
> 
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