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

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Fri Apr 23 15:07:27 EDT 2004


CORRECTION
In James 1: 17 you should read DOSIS, not DWSIS.
So my message should be:


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 DOSIS 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




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