GR.2 in Carson's Greek Accents
James Forsyth
james at bigbeing.com.au
Thu Aug 1 15:49:35 EDT 2002
Hi B-Greekers,
Maybe it's me that's going mad, but I just noticed a possible error in
Carson's Greek Accents. on page 34 he says "Consider ALHQEIA. The ultima
must be short: the antepenult has an accent(GR.2)"
2 problems:
1) GR.2 doesn't shed any light on the problem at all. GR.2 simply says "An
acute accent may stand only on an ultima, a penult or an antepenult; a
circumflex accent may stand only on an ultima or a penult; and a grave
accent may stand only on an ultima."
2) If Carson is referring to GR.4.1 ("If the ultima is long, then the
antepenult cannot have any accent") then there is a problem of
directionality. When considering ALHQEIA, says Carson, the cause of the
ultima being short is the presence of an accent on the
antepenult. Causality in GR.4.1 is moving in the opposite direction. (A
note on the chart on page 13 of W Mueller's Grammatical Aids for Students
of New Testament Greek does help on this issue, but access to both books
couldn't be assumed!)
James Forsyth
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