medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, December 20, 2007, at 10:09 pm, I wrote:
> ... If a person is
> described by a word that reputable scholars of the Greek language say
> in its principal meaning can be rendered by "carpenter", by "worker in
> wood", and by "cabinetmaker", what is there in modern denotative
> practices in English to preclude that more than one of these meanings
> may have resided conjointly in the term _teknon_ in NT Greek?
Er, _tekton_ (in the loose transliteration adopted from previous contributions to this thread) or more properly _tektwn_, as the final vowel is omega.
Apologies for the typo.
--JD
(unable to come up with a pertinent pun on _Kai su, teknon;_)
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