Re: MT 14:27 QARSEITE,EGW EIMI

From: A K M Adam (akm-adam@nwu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 08:59:14 EST


<x-flowed>Colleagues,

What about representing this with the idiomatic "Here I am" (as in
LXX Isaiah 6:8, IDOU, EGW EIMI, APOSTEILON ME)? This may also be
helpful for the Johannine text that bedevilled us several weeks ago.

Grace and peace,
A K M Adam

At 7:30 AM -0600 1/10/00, Steven Craig Miller wrote:
>To: Joseph Brian Tucker,
>
><< EUQUS DE ELALHSEN [hO IHSOUS] AUTOIS LEGWN, QARSEITE, EGW EIMI MH
>FOBEISQE. Does a translation of "take courage, it is I" obscure a
>better translation of "Fear not, I am"? >>
>
>The NRSV gives: << But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said,
>"Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid." >>
>
>IMO "it is I" sounds a little too formal. A more colloquial way of
>saying this would be "it's me."

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