[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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