Ancient Wisdom Today » Daniel Wallace http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org Ancient Wisdom Today: seeking to understand the past to make sense of the present Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Acts 9:7 and 22:9 – Did They Hear the Voice or Not? http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2009/12/19/acts-9-7-and-22-9-did-they-hear-the-voice-or-not/ http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2009/12/19/acts-9-7-and-22-9-did-they-hear-the-voice-or-not/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:43:22 +0000 Maer http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/?p=916 Listening to debates can be quite entertaining. Every once in a while you hear a good argument, learn something new, find out what different authors or scholars allegedly think, and even enjoy a nice come-back to a rebuttal or a timely joke at the expense of the opposition. But sometimes listening to debates may create more work for you because it is hard to believe everything you hear—are the debaters putting forth their best arguments or just trying to get the upper hand?—and a topic may arise that you just have to roll up your sleeves and check the facts out for yourself. In this post, within the context of a debate between Dan Barker and Mike Licona on the resurrection of Jesus1, I will look at a particularly interesting syntactical phenomenon in Greek where ακόυω (hear) takes different cases for its object, and the role it may play in two different accounts of Paul’s conversion in Acts.

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