On Sun 8 Apr 2001 (21:54:44), scarlson@mindspring.com wrote: > Because the LXX still applied the word PARQENOS to Dinah after > her rape, the PARQENOS need not always mean "virgo intacta." Hmmmm. KAI PROSESCE THi YUCHi DEINAS THS QUGATROS IAKWB : KAI HGAPHSE THN *PARQENON* KAI ELALHSE KATA THN DIANOIAN THS *PARQENOU* AUTHi. I wonder if there isn't a bit of /hysteron-proteron/ here (Genesis 34:3). She WAS a virgin until he raped her; presumably he raped her, because he cast eyes on her and "fell in love" with her. That was the *end*, /terminus ad quem/, of her /vagina intacta/ status. In the following verse, his designation of her changes abruptly from PARQENOS to PAIS: EIPE SUCEM PROS EMMWR TON PATERA AUTOU, LEGWN, LABE MOI THN *THN PAIDA TAUTHN* EIS GUNAIKA. (verse 4). Thereby Shechem acknowledges Dinah's change of status since raping her. We've had long discussions on this both here and on b-hebrew; so consult the archives if you will... ERRWSQE Ben -- Revd Ben Crick, BA CF 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK) http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.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 rry one's own partner; but in other cultures 'arranged marriages' are the norm. Corinth was a Roman Colony /Colonia Julia Corinthus/; the Roman law of /Patria Potestas/ applied. A devout Christian father would maybe want to keep his daughters at home for the reasons proposed by Paul in 1 Cor 7:25-35. But if things got out of control, and the daughters were afraid of getting past their "sell-by date" hUPERAKMOS, then GAMEITWSAN, the virgin and her young male swain. Plural, because getting married has to be done by two. Some think that the plural applies to more than one maiden daughter, each getting married to her respective beloved. hH PARQENOS AUTOU is perfectly understood as a maiden daughter: compare Sophocles' Oedipus, where the daughters of Oedipus are described by their father as PARQENOIN EMAIN (sic; Oed. Tyr. 1462). Some 'heavy fathers' would insist on their daughters remaining single at home (verse 37). From Paul's point of view, this is the better course (v 38). Some MSS (Aleph2; Psi; Majority Text) have EKGAMIZW "to marry off" in place of GAMIZW in verse 38. Danker in BDAG gives "to cause a woman to become married, give (a woman) in marriage" as the prime meaning of GAMIZW, and cites particularly 1 Cor 7:38. Corinth was renowned as a free-wheeling permissive society. Christians saved out of this culture would want to resist this, and insist on their traditional /Patria Potestas/. This would also agree with Jewish marriage and betrothal customs. For these, see A Edersheim, /The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah/, London, 1900, vol 1, pp 148, 352-354, 663, 664. ERRWSQE Ben -- Revd Ben Crick, BA CF 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK) http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.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