Punctuation query
Michael Holmes
holmic at bethel.edu
Mon Dec 10 16:59:31 EST 2001
Punctuation queryRod,
1 Thess 2:14-15 offers an example: UBS4/NA27 have a comma after IOUDAIWN at the end of 2:14, the effect of which is to generalize the following phrase: "... the Jews, who killed ...". Without the comma the phrase is restrictive: "...the Jews who killed ..." (in contrast to those who did not).
For a persuasive (to me, at least) case against the comma, see Frank Gilliard, "The Problem of the Antisemitic Comma Between 1 Thessalonians 2.14 and 15," New Testament Studies 25 (1989) 481-502; cf. C. F. D. Moule, An Idiom-Book of NT Greek, 106-7.
Mike Holmes
Bethel College
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From: Decker, Rodney
To: Biblical Greek
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Punctuation query
Could anyone offer an example (or a few such) in which the *punctuation* of a NT text (i.e., a punctuation variant) changes the meaning? I'm looking for clear examples in which the text could be read (legitimately, not humorously!) in at least two different ways depending on the way the text is punctuated--and which readings clearly result in a different meaning (not just a different emphasis or two different way to say essentially the same thing).
The primary impetus for this query is an English teacher's query for such an example as she teaches punctuation. I've run across such examples before (often involving questions, as I recall--though I'd prefer exs. which hinge on a colon vs coma vs period), but I can't pull up any off the top of my head at the moment--and I don't have the time to do a lot of work tracking it down. Who better to ask, I thought, than the b-greek community where such knowledge is readily available?!
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Rodney J. Decker, Th.D.
Associate Prof./NT
Baptist Bible Seminary
Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/
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