1Enoch 106:1

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 17 21:58:49 EDT 2002


At 7:35 PM -0400 6/17/02, Mark DelCogliano wrote:
>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.

I think (would guess, that is) that ME is the subject of EINAI TOTE: "he
came to me at the far boundaries of the land where he saw that I was at
that time." I think that the hOU must be understood as relative adverb for
hOPOU, "at which place."
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