From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
To: hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [b-hebrew] what to me and to you?
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:34:50 -0700
What to me and to you?
The expression: mh-ly wlK :or: mh-ly wlkM is found in Judg. 11:12,
2Sam. 16:10, 2Sam. 19:23, 1Kings 17:18, 2Kings 3:13, 2Chr. 35:21.
I am assuming this expression was a "street" idiom in the 2nd Temple period.
If so, did the idiom carry a connotation of anger, hostility or irritation
on the part of the speaker?
I am responding to a note in J.A. Fitzmyer (AB, Luke 1-9) where he states
that the Semitic idiom rendered in Luke 4:34 ti hemin kai soi carries a
connotation of hostility.
My question: Did the idiom have that connotation in the passages cited
above? What about in the in the 2nd Temple period? Evidence?
greetings,
Clay Bartholomew
[b-hebrew] what to me and to you?,
C. Stirling Bartholomew, 09/05/2004