[B-Greek] KAI IDOU

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Sun Feb 9 07:52:44 EST 2003


> Hi all.
>
> I am working on the particle construct KAI IDOU in Matthew.  It
> seems to me
> that it is a temporal marker, making a break between sections.
> It could be
> translated "and then..."  Looking through Matthew, it occurs 29
> times, only 3 of which may not fit this concept.

This description is not adequate.

> Does anyone know of any studies about this?  I know BDF talks
> about KAI IDOU
> as a Hebraism, but I have a feeling that is outdated (they
> themselves point
> out it is found in Homer).  I know that Bock in his commentary on Luke in
> the BEC deals with it a bit, but nothing overly substantial.  Does anyone
> else know of some resources or have some ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ron Fay

There are a number of studies on this in two SIL journals. One is Selected
Technical Articles Related to Translation, the other is its successor:
Occasional Papers in Text Linguistics. Some deal specifically with IDOU or
the Hebrew Hinneh, others deal with the use of IDOU in passing as they
discuss other discourse features.
There are probably articles in other places, too, but these are the ones I
know of and have access to on my computer, ordered chronologically:

Randall Buth: "Perspective In Gospel Discourse Studies, With Notes On
Euthus, Tote, And The Temptation Pericopes"
Selected technical articles related to translation, No. 6 (March 1982):
3–14.

D. Richard Brown: "Thematization In The Greek Narrative Sentences In Acts"
Selected technical articles related to translation, No. 6 (March 1982):
14–27.

Bruce Edward Tuggy: "Social Act Translation"
OPTAT Volume 1 No. 2 (April 1987): 66–82.

Roger Van Otterloo: "Towards an Understanding of ‘Lo’ and ‘Behold’.
Functions of IDOU and IDE in the Greek New Testament".
Occasional Papers in Translation and Textlinguistics Vol. 2 No. 1 (1988):
34–64

Donald Slager: "The use of ‘Behold’ in the Old Testament"
Occasional Papers in Translation and Textlinguistics Vol. 3 No. 1 (1989):
50–79.

Ralph Bruce Terry: "Some Aspects of the Discourse Structure of the Book of
James"
Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics Vol 5 No. 2 (1992): 106–125

Carl M. Follingstad: "HinnEh and Focus Function with Application to Tyap"
Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics Vol. 7 No. 3 (1995): 1–24

Iver Larsen



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