Lk 1:5 KAI GUNH AUTWi

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Aug 25 13:17:11 EDT 2002


I hereby resubmit the fourth of the questions concerned with distinctive
readings of Codex Bezae in the text of Luke's gospel.

The text of Lk 1:5 reads: EGENETO ... hIEREUS TIS ONOMATI ZACARIAS EX
EFHMERIAS ABIA, KAI GUNH AUTWI EK TWN QUGATERWN AARWN KAI TO ONOMA AUTHS
ELISABET.

Lk 1:5 KAI GUNH AUTWi is the reading both in D05 and in NA27/USB4)

Why is a dative (AUTWi) used here rather than a genitive (AUTOU)? The
dative of attribution also appears in Lk 8:3, 12:15; how is this different
from a possessive genitive? In Lk 1:13 and 1:18 Elizabeth is called the
wife of
Zacharias with a genitive. This seems independent of the construction with
the verb EINAI implicit, since the expression "belong to someone" is found
also with the genitive (Lk 4:7; 12:20D05; 18:16). Does the dative convey
some nuance that is distinct from the genitive in an expression such as
these?
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Carl W. Conrad
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