(b-greek) Re: BDAG - where are *-*?

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Tue Sep 17 18:24:40 EDT 2002



On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 01:18 PM, Dennis Hukel wrote:

> As I was going through the book of James, I encountered a sentence 
> beginning with MH, which most of the translations present as a 
> question without the words "no, not" in them. BDAG did not list this 
> reference at all. After a few minutes I concluded this
> usage must be in the category: "introduces a question expecting a no 
> answer". I can understand Danker not wanting to include all the 
> references where MH is just a negative particle, but I think in this 
> category he should have included all the references
> which applied to it.

According to Accordance, there are 53 occurrences of MH as an 
interrogative particle. BDAG gives about thirty GNT examples (over half 
the uses in this category) along with Classical and LXX examples. I 
think that unless the tool is to become entirely unwieldy, a line has 
to be drawn somewhere. As it is, the examples given in BDAG, in my 
opinion, are more than suggestive enough to point the student in the 
right direction.

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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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