Lk 1:60 ONOMA/ONOMATI

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 6 08:56:21 EDT 2002


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

Lk 1:60 NA27/USB4: KAI APOKRIQEISA hH MHTHR AUTOU EIPN: OUCI, ALLA
KLHQHSETAI IWANNHS ; D05: ... KLHQHSETAI TO ONOMA AUTOU IWANHS

How should the text of this clause in D05 be understood? (1) TO ONOMA AUTOU
is subject of KLHQHSETAI and IWANHS is predicate noun? (2) the subject of
KLHQHSETAI is understood to be the newborn child; TO ONOMA AUTOU is
accusative with the MP verb, however one wants to understand such a
"retained object" of a passive verb or the like. Note that in Lk 1:61 the
expression is different: OUDEIS ESTIN EK THS SUGGENEIAS SOU hOS KALEITAI
TWi ONOMATI TOUTWi.

It has been suggested that the accusative is used when the indicated person
receives his name by direct appellation (as John does here) or because of
the context (Cleopas was a Jew who had gotten his name from the Greek
contextr in which he lived his life (Lk 24:17 D05). On the other hand the
dative accompanies a name handed down from within the family (from father
to son or grandfather to grandson). Can such a hypothesis be validated or
invalidated?
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Carl W. Conrad
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