Verb Sequence in NT Greek

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Thu Mar 30 17:55:00 EST 2000


on 03/28/00 9:03 PM, Joe A. Friberg wrote:

> Now I have a question: what is the *source* of Mk's (and Jn's) syntax?  Is
> it Aramaic, as Nigel Turner _Style_ p.12, and others have suggested?

Joe,

I would not risk making a general statement on this topic, but will point
that A.T. Robertson in his venerable yellow door stop (p. 428 bottom) states
concerning  Mk 2:11 EGEIRE  ARON:

"This use of AGE is common in the old Greek
 (Gildersleeve, Greek Syntax  p. 29)."

I would take this as a cautionary note concerning using  Aramaic influence
as an explanation for this particular construction. On the broader topic of
Aramaic syntax in Mark and John and the Apocalypse and elsewhere, I am
somewhat of an agnostic. The more I read on the topic the more agnostic I
become. 

Note my use of polysyndeton:

. . . Aramaic syntax in Mark and John and the Apocalypse and elsewhere . . .

Perhaps my syntax has been influenced by reading too much LXX Greek or
W. Faulkner or E. Hemingway or V. Woolf or Ann Morrow Lindbergh or
L. Fernlingetti. Perhaps I just like to use conjunctions because of the
sound it makes when read aloud. Who knows?

Thanks again for your help with this question.

Clay

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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