From: WILLIAM ...
To: Donald ....
Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 18:26:26
Subject: Re: [Blog] Research (reply)
Dear Father Donald,
Thank you for sending me the Kittel dictionary scan! How inspiring it is to have burrowed with you and reached this 'degree of understanding' of Benedict XVI's interpretation... for so often I find a passage that intrigues me but decide it is just too complex, with commentators cross referencing one learned work to another, so that I cannot get a foot hold and have to abandon the trail! Reading Benedict XVI's writings is so inspiring, and demanding - but how satisfying! Such passages that are researched in this way stay to mind, and reignite at each recurrence.
By choosing a time carefully that I may not disturb the brethren when I come on retreat, I have a great desire to explore your library (rather than simply visit it!).
Thank you Father.
... in Our Risen Lord,
William
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From: Donald Nunraw ...
To: WILLIAM ...
Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 11:27:23
Subject: Re: [Blog] Research dictionary 2
Hi, William,
Salt for William,
So happened tag 'salt of william' in other misfire OCR scans.
Thank for you Email, simply adding carrot to this donkey, to set me on the KITTEL trail.
At last I have tried to navigate the 10 Volumes, TDNT (Kittel).
Invaluable exercise.
The scan, Attached, is not up to full accuracy for the footnotes and is not polyglot.
Years past, the collection came from a second hand book shop by a monk bibliophile.
Also more carrots in the Links in your note and also confirmation of your meticulous find of Benedict's bibliography.
Happy Scripture hunting as Jesus on Emmaus.
Donald
PS. Thanks for the excellent article.
PS. Thanks for the excellent article.
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Vol 1
Gerard Kittel, Ed., Geoffey Bromley Trs & Ed. Calif 1963
Biblical Reference “SALT”.
In the ancient world salt has religious significance. Because of its purifying and seasoning (Job 6:6) and preserving qualities it is a symbol of endurance 1 and value." It is linked with God,3 as putrefaction and corruption are linked with demons. For this reason it was much used in worship, as in the OT. It was sprinkled on or mixed into the sacrifices (Ex. 30:35; Lv. 2:13; Ez. 43:21). Newborn children were rubbed with it (Ez. 16:4). It was used by Orientals to drive away evil spirits. 4 Lasting covenants were made by eating bread and salt, or salt alone (Nu.18:19; 2Ch.13:5: the covenant of salt). 5
In the NT its cultic significance is lost. 6 The sacrificial ritual is simply a means to convey the truths of the religious and moral world. This seems to be the point
of the obscure saying in Mk. 9:49.7 The disciple must be seasoned with salt like the sacrifice. This will take place through trials (cf. the fire of 1 C. 3:13), and everything contrary to God will be purged away. Salt also typifies the religious and moral quality which must characterise the speech of the Christian (Col. 4:6), and esp. the quality which is an inner mark of the disciple and the loss of which will make him worthless (Lk. 14:34 f.; Mt.5:13; Mk.9:50).
Lk. gives us the original wording, linking the saying with serious demands made on the disciple. Mt. gives us, secondarily. a direct application to the disciples themselves. The saying seems to have in view conditions in Palestine. Salt from the Dead Sea, which is mixed with gypsum etc., acquires easily a stale and alkaline taste (cf. Plin., 31.34: tabescit). There seems to be a scoffing reference to this saying of Jesus in bBek.,8b: "(RJoshua b. Chananja (c.90) was once asked to tell a story). He said:
There was once a mule which had a foal. On this was hung a chain with the inscription that it should raise 100,000 Zuz from its father's family. He was asked: Can then a mule bear offspring 7 He said: These are fables. He was then asked: When salt loses its savour (not Hbr script lalas ), wherewith shall it be salted? He answered: With the young of a mule. He was then asked: Does then the unfruitful mule have young? He answered: Can salt lose its savour 7" 8
Hauck
Footnotes – for the moment our HP SCAN(OCR) not responsive to Footnotes and polyglot languages.
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