Mark 14:12-26 (more questions)
Tom Conry
tconry at hds.harvard.edu
Thu Feb 24 20:58:07 EST 2000
Thanks, Carl. Two questions. First, you're right and I was misreading LSJ.
Is there a Smyth reference to the dative of the person met by chance? I
can't find a reference to APANTAW in Smyth's index. (Or is Smyth, our
arbiter of all things Greek here, not the best place to look?) Second, I'd
like to understand the principle of ANQRWPOS and BASTAZAWN. How is it that
ANQRWPOS can mean 'someone' (gender neutral) but the participle modifying it
cinches the deal? Perhaps I'm just being exceptionally slow tonight . . .
wouldn't the gender of whatever attaches itself to ANQRWPOS have to be masc.
sing. just to be grammatically correct?
A sincere thanks for all you do for us here!
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:05 PM
To: Biblical Greek
Cc: Biblical Greek
Subject: RE: Mark 14:12-26 (more questions)
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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