(On)gelovigen,
(bij)gelovigen, (anders)gelovigen,
(lief)hebbers, haters, (on)verschilligen,
oppervlakkigen, diepgravers,
doodgravers!!
Scholarship
has only recently adopted the translation
"with a fist"
after centuries of emendation of the text against the dominant textual tradi-
tion. The usage "with a fist," albeit for fighting or hitting, is attested in the ancient Greek translation of the Bible,
the Septuagint, more than once (EX ODUS 21:8;
YESHAYAHU 58:4)!
AS ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN
JEWS ACTUALLY PERFORMING THE RITUAL OF HANDWASHING
CAN AND WILL GUESS IMMEDIATELY, MARK IS REFERRING TO THE PROCESS OF FORMING A LOOSE FIST
WITH ONE HAND AND POURING WATER OVER THAT FIST
WITH THE OTHER!
Actually our whole life depends
on the right formulation, just interpretation,
lively description & earnest explanation: where would we be without it?
(Daarom is het ook zo volkomen belachelijk, tegenstrijdig & onrechtvaardig om 'citeren & delibereren'
zo agressief te bejegenen als dmv. v/h dreigen met boetes & soortgelijke bestraffingen, dat riekt meer naar censuur & fascisme
dan naar vrijheid & liefde of 'trouw'! En hetzelfde gaat natuurlijk
ook evenzogoed op voor de extreme opvattingen
van creatief & apocalyptisch,
openen & (be)sluiten?)
THE 'CUPPED HAND & THE FIST'
of Mark 7:3 ~ Daniel Boyarin @ Jewish Gospels/Jewish Christ:
'supported by the late Talmudic Scholar Saul Lieberman, my teacher (in a letter to Stephen M. Reynolds):
"THE CUSTOM OF SHAPING THE HANDS LIKE CUPS WHEN THEY WERE BEING WASHED FOR RITUAL PURPOSES FROM A VESSEL WAS MOST PROBABLY ALREADY VERY OLD: THE OPENING OF THE [WATER~VESSEL] WAS USUALLY USUALLY NOT A LARGE ONE;
water in Palestine was
(is & will be) quite valuable!
WHEN ONE FORMS THE HAND LIKE A LOOSE FIST THIS NARROW STREAM OF WATER COVERS AT ONCE THE ENTIRE OUTER & INNER SURFACES OF THE HAND:
water is saved in this way!
FOR PURPOSES OF CLEANLINESS
IT WAS SUFFICIENT TO POUR thus SOME
(minimal amount of)
WATER ON THE PART OF THE HAND,
which could subsequently be spread all over the hand by rubbing
BOTH
hands
TOGETHER!
Pouring water on 'cupped hands'
IMMEDIATELY
in-dicated
RITUAL WASHING
in preparation for a meal!" UNfortunately,
this highly attractive & utterly significant interpretation has been al
most totally ignored until just the last two decades or so, despite its being obviously correct in my opinion!
MANY SCHOLARS, ESPE-CIALLY EUROPEANS, SEEM STILL TO HOLD THAT MARK MUST BE A GENTILE,
IN PART OWING TO HIS ALLEGED IGNORANCE OF JEWISH PRACTICE:
so I hope we will at least (at last)
somewhat unsettle this view?!
Hetzelfde
gold natuurlijk
ook voor die veroordeling tot strafkamp Erika
in het najaar van 1942, de 'verdwaalde' kogel op woensdagsmiddag 13 december '44,
'vervangende krijgsdienst', Be'ersjeva januari '67 & Petra (haSela haAdom) in mei/juni '67! Marteling,
moord, dwangarbeid, internering & mishandeling, letter & geest van 'de wet'! Het Recht & het onrecht liepen evenzozeer dwars doorelkaar bij zo'n trouwe Jolanda Breur, Asha ten Broeke & Nikki Kuipers etceterara tussen TROUW
& myDiary of bij boer Koekkoek, Janmaat & kornuiten, Moonies & Spoonies als
"vierling & gek geertje" of bij Pim Fortuyn &
Volkert van der Graaf, Theo van Gogh
& Mohammad Bouyari
of Karst e.d.
Zie ook bv.
"STOM & BEETJE DOM"/onze Ambonezen
& molukkers, Papoea Nieuw Guinea, New Amsterdam,
New Babylon & Daisy Kabouterse!
Het gaat niet alleen
om het in grote lijnen kunnen onderscheiden van recht & onrecht,
goed & fout, echt & vals, licht & duisternis, maar vooral ook om de 'kleine' details & de 'juiste' proporties:
in feite is dat ook de kern v/d myDizaak ~ 't (eventueel samen)
leren onderscheiden
van
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