[Bananafish] Scratching an itch on phantom limbs

[Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE]

Jim, they spoke Greek and there were Gentiles and Jews according to the
texts below.   I am an American, I speak English but it does not follow
that I can not also be a Jew who speaks Hebrew as well.  (ditto for
education as well.)

It was not till later that Christianity became a chimera, an
amalgamation of Hebrew, Greek, roman, gnostic etc. thought.

"And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews
and the Greeks.

"And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from
Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all
Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.  And because he was of
the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation
they were tentmakers."

"And he departed thence, and entered into a certain [man's] house, named
Justus, [one] that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the
synagogue.  And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on
the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing
believed, and were baptized."


Daniel




Yeah, Paul was complex.  He was both a hellenic (by birth) and a
palestinian (by education) Jew.  He called himself a Pharisee but
could quote pagan poets off the top of his head.  He always did start
in the synagogues, but I think there are plenty of good reasons to
believe that by the time he was writing his letters to the Corinthian
church it was primarily a Gentile church.  There'd be no question
about women if he were writing to a synagogue.  I don't think you can
get him without getting both his Jewish and his Greek backgrounds.
Most importantly, though, he wrote in Greek to Greek speakers.

Jim