Mark 6:22

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Mon Dec 24 09:28:04 EST 2001


At 11:05 PM +0100 12/16/01, Wieland Willker wrote:
>In the Byzantine text Mark 6:22 reads:
>KAI EISELQOUSHS THS QUGATROS AUTHS THS HRWDIADOS
>
>The AUTHS THS sounds a bit strange to me. Is this "good" Greek? What
>exactly does it mean
>and what would be an adequate translation of it?

To which Carl Conrad replied:

<< I would assume it's the intensive usage of AUTOS, which is in a
predicative
position to the noun with which it construes. The sense would be "the
daughter of Herodias herself"...>>

Maybe. But it still looks a bit strange to me. I would have expected the
intensive pronoun to follow the noun it intensifies rather than precede
it. But perhaps I'm being influenced too much by English usage. I wonder
what a search of intensive pronouns which precede their nouns vs. ones
which follow them would reveal? Alas, I don't have the software to do it.

Metzger, in his Textual Commentary, apparently found the Greek a bit
strange here too, for he suggests that "AUTHS [may] be taken as the
redundant pronoun anticipating a noun (an Aramaism)."

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA
Nibai kaurno hwaiteis gadriusando in airtha gaswiltith,
silbo ainata aflifnith: ith jabai gaswiltith, manag akran bairith.



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