[B-Greek] Mark 1.14
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Nov 5 06:52:56 EST 2003
>From: Mark Goodacre
>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:44 AM
>
>Mark 1.14, META DE TO PARADOQHNAI TON IWANNHN HLQEN hO IHSOUS EIS THN
>GALILAIAN EIS THN GALILAIAN KHRUSSWN TO EUAGGELION TOU QEOU
>
>I've always thought of TOU QEOU as an objective genitive here, gospel
>of / about God, but it occurs to me that it makes good sense as a
>subjective genitive, the gospel which comes from God. Jesus has been
>specially appointed by God in the baptism story (1.11) and now goes
>to preach the gospel which he has received from him, so that Mark is
>presenting Jesus as God's prophet, taking his message from God to the
>people. I haven't had a chance to look at any commentaries, so
>perhaps this is a common view?
Is it even necessary to characterize this genitive as either "subjective"
or "objective"? I've argued here before that these are translation matters
rather than anything inherent in the Greek formulation. All the
subcategories of adnominal/adjectival genitive listed in many grammars are
interpretative categories rather than descriptive of anything inherent in
the Greek text; I sometimes think the nearest thing to this in English is
the hyphenated form, "God-gospel"--every bit as unspecific as the Greek TO
EUAGGELION TOU QEOU.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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