"Syntactical Chiasmus"
Wayne Leman
wleman at mcn.net
Mon Jan 29 11:50:01 EST 2001
Virgil, you raise an excellent question, one which others have asked also.
Unfortunately, it goes beyond the focus on the b-greek list. It would be
most welcome on the Bible translation list.
Since you are already subscribed there, feel free to just copy your message
here to there. Just be sure that when you're here, you're not all there
<BG>, since these are two different lists with different topics for
discussion.
> Wayne, am I understanding you correctly that the bringing into
> another language, forms that are not natural to that language, is
something
> that was legitimately and successfully done by the New Testament writers
in
> a number of places in the New Testament? If this is true, isn't this
> borrowing of forms something that can legitimately be done as we struggle
to
> bring into many different target languages what is emphatically "said" in
> the Greek text
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