Lk1:60 ONOMA/ONOMATI

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Sep 8 07:47:41 EDT 2002


I am forwarding an Englished version of the response of Sylvie Chabert
d'Hyères to my message of Sept. 6 (cited within):

>Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 15:08:55 +0000
>Subject: Lk1:60 ONOMA/ONOMATI
>From: "SCH" <laodicy at ifrance.com>

At 8:56 AM -0400 9/6/02, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>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?

Your first proposal is probably the better one as indicated by the
active-voice formulation of LK 1:31 KAI KALESEIS TO ONOMA AUTOU IHSOUN
which imitates the Hebrew text.

However in certain verses of the Hebrew Bible the particle ET is inserted
after the verb to call: Kara and shmo... instead of Kara shmoO. This
particle ET tends
	- to establish a difference between two names or two peoples, e.g.,
between Isaac and Ishmael Gen 21:3, 16:15; Jacob and Israel Gen 35:10/10;
Manassa and Ephraïm Gen 41:51-52
	- or to stress a name, e.g.: Enoch (Gen 4:26); Seth (Gen 5:3);
Bethel (Gen. 28:19);
	The occurrences with ET are fewer.

The LXX did not reflect this Hebrew particle; what is found rather is a
formulation with verb KALEW TO ONOMA

In Lk 1:60 according to D05, it might be the very insertion of the
redundant TO ONOMA that reflects this Hebrew ET which is reflected in 1:61
in D05: hOS KALEITAI TO ONOMA TOUTO, whereas in the other MSS one finds the
dative: hOS KALEITAI TWi ONOMATI TOUTWi. Would the latter phrasing be more
idiomatic Greek than the other?

I deemed TO ONOMA to be an accusative of respect... In Hebrew one finds
v-shmo or v-shma to express the name of a person or thing, but I didn't see
alternation with another expression. Also hWi ONOMA. is probably just the
exact equivalent of ONOMATI without other than a stylistic nuance.

>Lk 1:27 ANDRI  hWi  ONOMA IWSHF
>LK 2:25 ANQRWPOS ...  hWi ONOMA SUMEWN,
>LK 24:18 EIS hWi ONOMA KLEOPAS
>LK 10:38 TIS ONOMATI MARQA
>LK 19:2D05 ANHR ONOMATI  ZAKXAIOS
>
>Sylvie Chabert d'Hyères





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