http://www.billdarlison.com A Unitarian minister's books, thoughts and pontifications Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.billdarlison.com/zodiac-sermons/sagittarius/comment-page-1/#comment-7761 Bill Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:24:31 +0000 http://www.billdarlison.com/?page_id=122#comment-7761 Hello Lewis, Thanks for your question. It's an important one. The Greek is epi tou amphodos, which can be translated as 'at the double road' or something like that. amphodos is made up of the adjective amphi (double) and the noun hodos (road or way). An amphitheatre is a double theatre (a Greek theatre was normally just a semicircle, so an amphitheatre is a full circle, like the Coloseum). The KJV has 'at the place where two roads meet', but all the other translations just mention the road, or call it a circular road. The KJV translation suits my point, so I've kept it! Details like this are important in a text like Mark which is generally very bare and lacking in description; when such a word appears we should pay attention to it. Hello Lewis, Thanks for your question. It’s an important one. The Greek is epi tou amphodos, which can be translated as ‘at the double road’ or something like that. amphodos is made up of the adjective amphi (double) and the noun hodos (road or way). An amphitheatre is a double theatre (a Greek theatre was normally just a semicircle, so an amphitheatre is a full circle, like the Coloseum). The KJV has ‘at the place where two roads meet’, but all the other translations just mention the road, or call it a circular road. The KJV translation suits my point, so I’ve kept it! Details like this are important in a text like Mark which is generally very bare and lacking in description; when such a word appears we should pay attention to it.

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