On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:52 -0500 Jim West <jwest AT highland.net> writes:
At 01:18 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:____________
>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.
>
>Yigal
Paul in 99% likelihood was not the author of Hebrews. Whoever did
write
it, wrote excellent greek, excelled in the New Testament only by the
author
of 1 Peter. Nonetheless you are correct in observing that when
writing
Greek one thinks in Greek and including a loan word or two from
Hebrew or
Aramaic doesn't change that fact any more than someone occasionally
inserting "vis-a-vis" makes them a fluent thinker in French.
Jim
++++++++++++++++++++
Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
Quartz Hill School of Theology
Jim,
I beg your pardon, but the likelihood that Paul was the author of Hebrews
is approx. 0.001%
george
gfsomsel
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