[B-Greek] 1 Tim. 3:16 and Greek poetry

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Fri Apr 23 14:57:33 EDT 2004


Ted,

As far as I can see Greek poetry was based on metre and Jewish poetry on
parallellism.
So I am very curious if someone can give examples of Christian hymns like
the one you quoted but from *outside the NT*.

If not, we have to ask, on what base some commentaries consider some
passages of the NT as hymns. Of course the language / stile sounds poetic,
but what is the proof that it were really hymns?


Some lines in metre in the NT:

Titus 1: 12 KRHTES AEI YEUSTAI, KAKA QHRIA, GASTERES ARGAI
(dactylic)

James (!!!) 1: 17 PASA DWSIS AGAQH KAI PAN DWRHMA TELEION
(dactylic)

1 Cor 15: 33 FQEIROUSIN HQH CRHSTA OMILIAI KAKAI
(jambic)

Arie



Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Ted Shoemaker" <tedsmath at yahoo.com>
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Verzonden: vrijdag 23 april 2004 20:19
Onderwerp: Re: [B-Greek] 1 Tim. 3:16 and Greek poetry


>
> --- 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,
>
>
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