GALATIANS, DIA
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jun 18 07:29:51 EDT 2000
At 12:23 PM -0700 6/17/00, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>on 06/17/00 11:17 AM, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>
>> And also look at the Vulgate's rendering of
>> Matt. 26:61 DIA TRIWN hHMERWN ==> POST TRIDUUM
>
>There is another example of this:
>
>Mk 14:58 DIA TRIWN hHMERWN ==> POST TRIDUUM (v.l.)
The last time we went through the matter of DIA + X hHMERWN I made a
suggestion that may be worth repeating: the expression should be understood
to mean "with an interval of X days" and seen as comparable to British
English "in a fortnight" (= 14 days hence) or German "heute in acht Tagen"
(= a week from today" or "in a week"). Each of these has a perspective on
the interval as a whole from the end of the time-span. It seems to me
that's the way this Greek expression with DIA and a genitive of time
interval ought to be undrstood.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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