From: sandra hack polaski (shpolaski@btsr.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 11:13:49 EDT
I've argued for some time that the travelers to Emmaus are Cleopas and his
wife, but not primarily because of the "wife of Clopas" mentioned in John.
Rather, the logic of the Lukan story itself seems to me to fit the travelers
being a married couple going home and inviting the fellow-traveler into
their home. The Greek does not dictate this, of course; but it makes it
possible, and the story is least convoluted if understood this way.
--Sandra Hack Polaski
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> From: Biblical Greek digest [mailto:b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu]
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> Subject: Re: masc/feminine plural participle
> From: "Kevin W. Woodruff" <cierpke@prodigy.net>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:53 -0400
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>
> Some times a plural masculine substantive can cover both male
> and females
> considered together as a group, for example Luke 2:41 hOI GONEIS.
>
> Kevin W. Woodruff
> Chattanooga, TN
>
> At 07:24 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Someone had suggested that the fellow walker with Cleopas on
> the road to
> >Emmaus might be Cleopas' wife. The surmise was based on John 19:25.
> >
> >My question concerns whether the masculine participle in
> Luke 24:33 would
> >allow the possibility for the antecedents to be husband and
> wife. Or would
> >a male and female require a neuter modifier?
> >
> >Lk 24:33 KAI ANASTANTES AUTHi THi hWRA hUPESTREYAN EIS IEROUSALHM
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Richard Smith
> >Chattanooga, TN
> >
> >---
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