[B-Greek] MARIAM in Luke 1:46
mrt
mrt at hisurfer.net
Thu Dec 25 18:18:50 EST 2003
William Smith said:
> In Luke 1:46, the name MARIAM is undeclinable. Is
> there any grammatical reason why it could not be
> translated as a dative ("and she said to Mary")
> instead of a nominative ("and Mary said")?
Grammatically posible... but because of other reasons -not very probable.
Besides the overall textual evidence in support of Mary as the speaker, have
you read the first chapter of Luke for stylistic clues? Esp. note 1:38.
Michael Tarver
Oregon, USA
<'\\>< laus Deo
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