Mike Sangrey said: >> Isn't it interesting though, that it is in the practice of community >> that these cognitive environments are exposed? "Carl W. Conrad" cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu said: > Precisely; in the community that Paul sometimes referred to as the > SWMA IHSOU CRISTOU (it's always struck me as a curious fact that a > tradition of private mysticism--the very thing that Paul seems in 1 > Cor to be haranguing against--could have emerged out of the NT > literature), and also, in a somewhat (?!) derivative sense, on > B-Greek. Did it "emerge out of the NT literature"; or, did it emerge from the Hellenistic culture of the time? If I Cor. is battling against it, then it appears to me to have grown up from somewhere else. I tend to think the Hebraic culture was highly communal as a community of families and that Paul was bringing a message directed to the Greek and born from a Hebrew frame of reference, a Hebrew cognitive environment, if you will. I feel this is pushing the boundaries of B-Greek, but I would be interested in any feedback one has regarding any individualistic tendencies of 1st Century Hellenistic culture. IMO, it would help us in exegisis and translation to understand a little more fully the cognitive environment of the GNT writers. Thanks for everyone's help. --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu