From: Steven Cox (scox@Mail.Sparkice.COM.CN)
Date: Thu Jun 17 1999 - 13:35:05 EDT
Jonathan
Thanks for comment on statistical significance.
Jeffrey
Not able to locate ref to plural of SATAN[AS] in PMG. (explains why Bauer
doesn't mention it, I wonder if Daniel Riano's dictionary does?)
But the dating of the following in Hebrew/Aramaic means the plural option
was live in NT background: Book of Enoch: 40.7 DSS: 1QH fragments 4.6; 45.3;
Formulary of Blessings, Talmud: Ber. 60b; Shab. 39b
Steven
PS Also I'm told in early portions of a traditional Jewish prayerbook (now
how do I check this one?) and later Mandean literature ("Right Ginza 279.4")
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey B. Gibson <jgibson000@mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Incidence of article with NT names
>Steven Cox wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> Q2. If it is statistically significant then does the article use tell us
>> anything about Petros and (more so) Satanas related to other proper
nouns?
>>
>> Wild guesses:
>> e.g. Petros has article more often because it can exist in plural (but
can
>> Satanas exist in plural? I thought once or twice in PMG but can find no
>> trace in Bauer)
>> e.g. Satanas is influenced by Hebrew? (but I thought in Hebrew PNs didn't
>> take the article?)
>>
>
>Don't know how to answer your question on PETROS, but in all but one of the
>references to Satan in the Hebrew Bible, the term is *not* a proper name --
it is a
>title of a God appointed office. And I'd say that despite our tendency to
personalize
>*and* demonize Satan (sorry about the pun), most of the NT references to
that figure
>are actually references to the office that the heavenly being who fills
it---often in
>the service of God--carries out.
>
>Yours,
>
>Jeffrey Gibson
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