Re: Self-Use of Ethnic Insults (was: Re: Ebonic Christmas )

Am 01/15 23:49  Steg Belsky yscrifef:

> You get people's attention better that way.  Someone might have noticed
> that in my posts on Jûdajca i switched constantly back and forth between
> "Jews" and "Judeans" - the second noun, like "Swedes" or "Buddhists", is
> completely value-neutral.
>
The New Testament Scholar John Dominic Crossan visited last year and
noted that he would prefer to use the word Judean in translation in
first century context but resists it on the ground that modern readers
would unintentionally think that he is using it as a PC term for Jew.  A
frustration for translators I suspect.

One thing that puzzles me is why English has never derived the agent
noun *Judaist from Judaism.  I think the distinction could be useful.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

                      "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen
                   Doon on your knees and up agen."

                    "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend;
                   Sit ye doon on mon's chief end."
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