How to recognize hendiadys?

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at sagus.com
Sat Jun 19 20:16:07 EDT 1999


Let me throw another candidate hendiasys into the pot here, since I'm 
puzzling over this right now. One commentary suggests that in Genesis 2:16, 
"the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" is a hendiasys. Is this 
likely? I do not know Hebrew. In the LXX, the phrase is:

Gen 2:16 ... APO DE TOU XULOU TOU GINWSKEIN KALON KAI PONHRON OU FAGESQE AP 
AUTOU

Could this be a hendiasys where KALON KAI PONHRON means something like 
"pleasurable evil" or "attractive evil"?

Jonathan



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