1Enoch 106:1

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jun 18 01:23:27 EDT 2002


Hello Mark,

on 6/17/02 4:35 PM, Mark DelCogliano wrote:

> 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."

OK, i can accept that.

> 
> 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?

Assuming that we have a Semitic original (not Ethiopic) the construction
found here is used in the LXX to translate the Hebrew pattern:

lamed+proper-name ben+SUFFIX first masculine singular

Similar patterns (mostly 3rd person suffix)  are not hard to find. See 1Chr.
28:11.

This might explain the initial position of the proper name.

I don't know how this would work in Aramaic.

greetings,

Clay

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