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Dear John,
as far as I'm concerned you may be right. But there is a methodological question here, too: does it matter from the point of view of changing the plural to singular whether it was personally invented by the Apostle Paul, or by some redactor (Luke, as a matter of convenience)?
I love how Franz Rosenzweig read the R abbreviation of OT criticism: he read the abbreviation instead of Redactor as Rabbenu (our teacher) ... If some Christian teacher was so humble as to attribute his own genial redaction to the Apostle, let us grant it to him. I don't think that we can get anywhere beyond that (until the fragments of the records of the amanuenses at the Athens speech will be discovered at some place)...:))
Perikles must have been able to say something like the speech Thucycides, the reporter attributes to him. There is not much to be gained by divesting Perikles of this honour, after all.
Best,
George
G. Gereby
associate professor
Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy Department, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
recurrent associate professor
Medieval Studies Dept.
Central European University
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Robert Kraft wrote:
>
>> Same in the famous speech of Paul on the Areospagus, Acts 17,23
>> where he changes to "theooi agnostooi"
>> what was plural on the inscripition of the altar: "diis ignotis (et
>> peregrinis)" (details in Norden, Agnostos theos).
>
> Didymus of Alexandria and Jerome already make this claim (that Paul
> changed the plural to singular), so even if it is not true (and there are
> arguments both ways), there was already suspicion in antiquity that such
> things happened.
Could I just make the mild observation that we can't hold Paul responsible
for the wording of Acts?
John Briggs
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