[B-Greek] Mark 1.14

waldo slusher waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 5 09:03:12 EST 2003



> >From: Mark Goodacre
> >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.  

And Carl said...

> 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 think this comment by Carl is correct only in that
it applies to us some 2,000 years later. I hardly
think on the other hand that the writers and readers
of the first century were bound by this inability to
be "descriptive" in their own language-culture. And of
course as more and more ancient Greek writings are
discovered, the more and more objective constructs
like this become.

=====
Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB

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