[B-Greek] original Greek versus translation greek

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Mon May 19 10:54:42 EDT 2003


At 04:02 PM 5/18/2003 -0500, Michael Abernathy wrote:
>Would you consider it likely that Paul was imitating the style of the 
>Septuagint to impress on his readers that the subject matter was holy?

I don't know the answers to most of your questions, but I do have an 
opinion on this last. Paul has, in my opinion, imitated Septuagint Greek in 
at least one other place - at the beginning of Luke. If you compare the 
Greek in Luke 2 to the Greek in the end of Luke, or even more so to Acts, I 
think that Luke 2 reads a lot more like parts of the Septuagint. You might 
be able to establish some baseline statistics using that fact, and compare 
1 Thessalonians and some other Pauline letter - say, Galatians? - to see 
how these other samples compare.

Hope this helps,

Jonathan


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