(somewhat long), Re: Mk 10:21
Dave Reigle
reigles at paonline.com
Sat Sep 2 01:38:35 EDT 2000
I usually lurk on this list, but I want to say I have found this discussion
helpful. I'm glad to hear the patient explanations and the direct
questions. The question raised in your post is one that has troubled me
since I started looking into what these Aspectologists are all about.(Please
I mean no disrespect by Aspectologists, I just don't know what word is
general enough to cover what all these fine scholars are doing.) To you who
hold with this newer thinking on aspect, I also ask:
How do you know that aspect is only a point of view in Koine Greek? How do
you know that Foregrounding and Backgrounding are what the writers intended
to do with these morphological choices? If there is some objective basis
for these ideas, I would love to hear them, because I am delighted to think
about Aspect in these terms. It seems too explain many difficulties, and
provide a push toward the goal of understanding just what the Greeks meant
by they're choice of tenses.
But I have an uneasy feeling that I'm in a fairy land and not in touch with
the "guts" of the language. I am a mathematician by training, so you may
see how this viewpoint could appeal to me, but can you put me on a more
solid footing with some objective evidence?
Thank you,
Dave Reigle
Elizabethtown, PA
reigles at paonline.com
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