This article consists of the summary of a comprehensive survey of the terms κοινωνία, κοινωνός, and κοινωνέω, in documentary sources (i.e., inscriptions and papyri). Moving beyond basic semantic questions, it focuses on the usages and pragmatic connotations of these cognates in a wide range of documentary contexts dating between ca. v bc and ad vii. Thereby it purports to broaden current understandings of the terms, draw attention to unsuspected or overlooked connotations, and highlight potentially relevant examples vis-à-vis the nt.
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Lincoln, “Communion,” 136. Lincoln’s essay is quite instructive in this regard.
See N. Baumert, Koinonein und Metechein—Synonym? (Stuttgart: Katholische Bibelwerk, 2003) 554. His index actually contains a few mistakes: bgu 919 should be read as bgu iii 969, PLond 166 as P.Lond. v 1660, and POxy 1624 as P.Oxy. xiv 1642. sig 300 (2nd ed.) is the same inscription as sig 474 (p. 190) and sig 646 (3rd ed.), and is more commonly referenced as ig vii 2225. bgu iv 1037 (p. 266) could have also been added to the list.
Cf. G.A. Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East (4th rev. ed.; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927) 227-251; G.H.R. Horsley and J.A.L. Lee, “A Lexicon of the New Testament with Documentary Parallels,” FilNT 10 (1997) 60; G. Horrocks, Greek (2nd ed.; London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) 114-117, 147-152; F.T. Gignac, “Grammatical Developments of Greek in Roman Egypt Significant for the New Testament,” in The Language of the New Testament: Context, History, and Development (eds. S.E. Porter and A.W. Pitts; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2013) 401-419.
Cf. Campbell, “KOINΩNIA,” 367; Seesemann, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, 4-8; F. Hauck, “κοινωνέω,” tdnt 3 (1964) 797-798, 808-809; bdag, s.v. κοινωνέω 2. Baumert rejects this possibility, but, rather surprisingly, accepts “Mitteilung” as the second Hauptbedeutung of κοινωνία. See Baumert, Koinonein, 43-44, 52-53, 141, 198-226, 241-246.
Campbell, “KOINΩNIA,” 355-356; Endenburg, Koinoonia, 96-98; Baumert, Koinonein, 46-50.
Cf. P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (vol. 1; Paris: Klincksieck, 1968) 552; H. von Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (vol. 1; 2nd ed.; Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universität, 1973) 893; R. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (vol. 1; Leiden: Brill, 2010) 731.
Preisigke, Wörterbuch 1:815-816; lsj, s.v. κοινωνός; mm, s.v. κοινωνός; F. Hauck, “κοινωνός,” tdnt 3 (1964) 797; bdag, s.v. κοινωνός; L&N, s.v. κοινωνός. Cf. Campbell, “KOINΩNIA,” 353; Seesemann, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, 19-20.
See S.L. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (New York: Greenwood, 1969) 286-335; P.A. Brunt, “The Administrators of Roman Egypt,” in Roman Imperial Themes (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990) 235-243.
Cf. Oertel, Liturgie, 146, 211, 221; Lallemand, L’administration, 208, 215-216.
e.g., Preisigke, Wörterbuch 1:815; lsj, s.v. κοινωνία; mm, s.v. κοινωνία; F. Hauck, “κοινωνία,” tdnt 3 (1964) 798.
Campbell, “KOINΩNIA,” 357; Seesemann, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, 11-19. Baumert suggests that objective, possessive, and qualitative genitives, as well as genitives of relationship, are also possible. See Baumert, Koinonein, 141-145.
e.g., J.H. Oliver, “The Sacred Gerusia,” HesperiaSup 6 (1941) 125-141, #31 (ca.ad 230); seg 4.247, 250, 255 (ca.ii bc to ad ii).
J.P. Sampley, Pauline Partnership in Christ (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980) 21-50.
Cf. G.F. Hawthorne, Philippians (Waco: Word Books, 1983) 16-17; P.T. O’Brien, The Epistle to the Philippians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991) 61-63; M. Silva, Philippians (Grand Rapid: Baker, 2005) 44; G.W. Hansen, The Letter to the Philippians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) 32-35, 47-48.
J.P. Louw, “How Do Words Mean—If They Do?” Fil NT 4 (1991) 137.
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This article consists of the summary of a comprehensive survey of the terms κοινωνία, κοινωνός, and κοινωνέω, in documentary sources (i.e., inscriptions and papyri). Moving beyond basic semantic questions, it focuses on the usages and pragmatic connotations of these cognates in a wide range of documentary contexts dating between ca. v bc and ad vii. Thereby it purports to broaden current understandings of the terms, draw attention to unsuspected or overlooked connotations, and highlight potentially relevant examples vis-à-vis the nt.
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