[B-Greek] 1 Tim. 3:16 and Greek poetry
CWestf5155 at aol.com
CWestf5155 at aol.com
Fri Apr 23 14:37:31 EDT 2004
Ted,
Yes, sequences like this are recognized literary devices that appeal to the
ear. I could go further and say there is also a semantic/rhetorical
parallelism with the string of the aorist pasive indicative 3rd s verbs. The repeated
use of the passive looks particularly intentional--of course it maintains Jesus
as the grammatical subject, but we would have recognized Jesus as the topic
without all the passives.
I was thinking the same thing about the ease of achieving this effect with
highly inflected languages.
Cindy Westfall
Denver
In a message dated 4/23/2004 12:19:37 PM Mountain Standard Time,
tedsmath at yahoo.com writes:
--- CWestf5155 at aol.com wrote:
>
> The poetic element that stands out is the repetition of QH in every
> line.
Are you saying that if I write a sentence in Greek with a sequence of
verbs or participles that all have the same suffix, that constitutes
one kind of Greek verse?
This sounds very much like rhyme or assonance in English poetry --
but much easier to attain in a language with so many suffixes set in
stone.
Thank you,
=====
Ted Shoemaker
A tantrum on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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