1Enoch 106:1

Mark DelCogliano cassian at dellepro.com
Mon Jun 17 19:35:27 EDT 2002


Clay,

> 1Enoch 106:1
>
> META DE CRONON ELABON MAQOUSALEK TWi hUIWi MOU GUNAIKA
> KAI ETEKEN hUION KAI EKALESEN TO hONOMA AUTOU LAMEC:
>
> Don't read Ethiopic so I am curious about the idiom:
>
> ELABON MAQOUSALEK TWi hUIWi MOU GUNAIKA
>
> I assume the agent here is Enoch and the action is performed on behalf of
> MAQOUSALEK TWi hUIWi MOU.

I think that your assumption about the agent (or subject) is correct: it is
Enoch who speaks. But I think LAMBANW TINI GUNAIKA is perfectly acceptable
Greek; see BDAG LAMBANW 3: thus "I procured/acquired a wife for my son M."

What interests me is the placement of the indeclinable proper name *before*
the 'explicative' nominal phrase (in the present case TWi hUIWi MOU). It
threw me off at first but then I noticed a similar thing happening
elsewhere: 106:13 IARED TOU PATROS MOU, 107:2 LAMECH TWi hUIWi SOU, 107:3
ENWCH TOU PATROS AUTOU, etc. Does anyone know if such placement of
indeclinable names is normitive?

Furthermmore, if anyone can make sense of 106:8,

HLQEN PROS EME EIS TA TERMATA THS GHS hOU EIDEN TOTE EINAI ME,

I would be interested to know how to construe the EINAI ME.

Mark DelCogliano







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