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There is a summary of various explanations for this verse on this web page:
http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm.
Lamsa's Aramaic explanation was the one most often heard in my graduate and
post graduate years, but that was a long time ago and I don't know what's
the most common view among NT scholars today.
Stan Metheny
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 25. March
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Quoting Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > In a similar vein, I recently read that the Greek word for "camel" is
similar
> > to that for
> > "rope", and that Christ's famous -- and, as it stands, rather curious --
> > parable about
> > a camel passing through the eye of a needle may have initially been
> > enunciated by
> > Christ himself, in somewhat more sensible terms, as a rope passing
through
> > the eye
> > of a needle. FWIW.
> > Cheers,
> > Jim Bugslag
>
> Response: Doesn't this only work if Jesus was speaking Greek. Isn't the
point of
> the saying the same either way--it's impossible.
>
> V. Kerry Inman
> >
>
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