Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: psburns@lims03.lerc.nasa.gov (MAUREEN BURNS) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: st. jude Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 04:18:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu > >Would the story of Dives and Lazarus be a relevant reference? Not necessarily >to answering prayer requests from those on earth, of course, but of being Who is Dives? I don't remember in the Bible that the rich man who refused to feed the beggar Lazarus had a name. What translation is the name Dives used? MB [According to the Anchor Bible commentary on Luke, Dives is a deliberate misunderstanding of the Latin Vulgate "homo quidam erat dives", translating dives (rich?) as if it were a proper name. In almost all Greek manuscripts the man has no name. However in P75, the oldest Greek text of Lk, it says "named Neues". They comment that that name is unintelligible, and is possibly an abbreviated form of Nineues (Nineveh), which appears in an ancient Sahidic translation. von Harnack suggested it was a corruption of Phinehas, the name preserved in Priscillian and pseudo-Cyprian. The commentary mentions some even more desperate proposals that I won't go into. --clh]