GAR and Paratactic Connectors

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Thu Oct 14 20:16:21 EDT 1999


Here is the essence of the discussion on GAR:

> >At Mt 27:23 we find: TI GAR KAKON EPOIHSEN; The NRSV translates GAR as
> >'why': "Why, what evil has he done?" Instead of "explaining what preceded,"
> >here it asks a question about what preceded. <g>
> 
> This is Pilate's response to the crowd's screaming
> STAURWQHTW! The implicit force of the Greek GAR is: "What evil has he done,
> to make you insist that he be crucified?" The explanatory force is there.
> 

a) STAURWQHTW.
b) TI GAR KAKON EPOIHSEN?

To make sense of this construction, I thought of the following sequence:

a) Crucify him.
b) (For) He misled the people. 

Here b) supports claim a).


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