[B-Greek] AUTOS
Steve Klemetti
sklemetti at softhome.net
Mon Oct 27 22:58:25 EST 2003
Many years ago I did some study into Biblical Greek using:
Essentials of New Testament Greek - John Huddilston 1895
And An Exegetical Grammer Of The Greek New Testament William D Chamberlain
And Thayer's Lexicon
with
Wescott & Hort's Greek Text
Is there anyone familiar with these references?
"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
> At 11:13 AM -0400 10/27/03, Brent Hudson wrote:
> >When using Mounce's textbook to teach first year Greek, do the teachers on
> >this list augment Mounce's treatment of nominative AUTOS as the subject of
> >verbs (chapter 12)? Mounce leaves the use of AUTOS with verbs somewhat
> >ambiguous, but his answer key (for the workbook) indicates that AUTOS
> >should be understood as a simple pronoun. This is opposite of how I have
> >understood this. I have seen nominative AUTOS with a verb as intensive
> >and as not limited to 3rd person, but for 1 & 2 person as well (cf., AUTOI
> >GAR HKOUSAMEN - Lk 22:71). My basic concern is why use nominative AUTOS
> >with a verb if not to emphasize/intensify the subject? After all, a
> >writer can use the definite article to specify the gender or number for
> >the implied subject.
>
> My perspective on this is perhaps not very useful for those who teach Koine
> Greek only; I taught primarily classical Attic Greek, and at Washington
> University we insisted that students of Koine do one full year of classical
> Attic BEFORE taking up reading of Koine texts; consequently there have only
> been a couple times that I ever taught Koine using Mounce. Even then I
> emphasized as I always did in doing Attic that AUTOS functions in three
> different ways: as a third-person pronoun; as an intensive pronoun
Steve Klemetti
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