Mark 14:12-26 (more questions)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Feb 24 20:04:53 EST 2000


At 7:54 PM -0500 2/24/00, Tom Conry wrote:
>In Mark 14:13 we read:
>
>APANTHSEI hUMIN ANQRWPOS KERAMION UDATOS BASTAZWN
>
>Now, there are two issues in this phrase for me.  First of all, LSJ says
>that when we have APANTW c. dat. loci we should read light upon, come to,
>and gives the example of LXX Gen 28:11 (Jacob happens upon a place).  So I
>understand that the construction foregrounds the claim that Jesus knows
>the nature of fate or chance.

Does LSJ call this a dative of place? I've always understood APANTAW to be
used with a dative of the person met by chance, and that's what we actually
have here. I do think indeed that the Marcan Jesus is credited with
foreknowledge--after all this passage comes immediately after chapter 13
with its vivid description of what is to come in the relatively near future.

>Second, aren't the ones carrying water jars ordinarily women?  Does the
>author intend that those who are being sent out will be met (by
>happenstance) by a woman?  Or does the grammar preclude this possibility?

Whether or not the ones carrying water are ordinarily women, this one is a
man; if the text read only ANQRWPOS, it would mean "a person" and could be
feminine, but with the addition of the masculine participle BASTAZWN (not
BASTAZOUSA), that possibility is ruled out. This one is a man.


Carl W. Conrad
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