James 1: right strawy translation questions
Paul Zellmer
smdirect at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 5 10:06:20 EDT 2002
Wayne,
I see co-reference in 1:5 and the first part of 1:6. The reference in 1:6b
is a possible but not required type of person that the other may fall into.
The reference of 1:7 is a bit ambiguous, either 1:5/6a or 1:6b, but I prefer
6b, since verse 7 seems to set in contrast with 6a. Whichever the
translator takes it as, 1:8 refers to the same person, IMO. Verse 9 is a
completely different person, the verse setting in contrast to verse 10.
The only caution that I see in putting this into English would be that the
reference in verse 8 needs to be clearly distinguished that it is going back
to hO ANQRWPOS and not TOU KURIOU, something that comes out very clearly IMO
in the Greek text.
HTH,
Paul Zellmer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Leman [mailto:wayne_leman at sil.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:29 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] James 1: right strawy translation questions
>
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, please. I am assuming that TIS of James 1:5, the
> third person singular command referent of the AITEITW and the third
> person singular subjects of the participles of James 1:6, hO
> ANQRWOPOS of James 1:7, and ANHR of James 1:8 are all
> co-referential, that is, that they refer to the same person. Does this
> seem right to you, so far?
>
> Would hO ADELFOS of James 1:9 continue this referential cohesion,
> referring
> to the same person?
>
> If we have lexical, referential cohesion in at least 1:5-8, and possibly
> 1:5-9, would any of you have any suggestions as to why James uses
> different
> words to refer to the same person? Would it be just for stylistic variety,
> or would there be some semantic purpose for using the different terms to
> refer to the same person?
>
> Finally, how would *you* translate each of the above Greek words in this
> section so that the lexical cohesion (co-reference) is clear in
> translation,
> that is, so that it is clear in English that the same person is
> being talked
> about?
>
> Hay, that wasn't too hard, was it? I ask a lot of strawy
> questions, but some
> of you field (ahem!) them quite well!
>
> Wayne Leman
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