[B-Greek] Mark 3:13, 14 - present and aorist

Siang Nuan Leong faithlsn at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 25 21:06:55 EST 2004


Currently I am working on the function of unit-initial historic presents in 
Mark as part of my ThM thesis. I have a hypothesis that these historic 
presents that begin episodes have an important structuring role to play in 
macro-units of discourse: (1) These HPs help the reader to delimit a unit of 
discourse, usually a macro-unit consisting of a complete episode that is 
made up of a sequence of events. (2) These HPs also tell us something about 
how the various units delimited correspond to one another through the 
lexical choice of the HPs.
This is the function of episode-initial (or unit-initial) HPs form a 
discourse analysis point of view.

I am still working on this hypothesis. But it has indeed goven me much lead 
into the structure of Mark.


S N Leong
Singapore



>From: "Con Campbell" <concampbell at netspace.net.au>
>To: "John Colby" <colby at solutions2000.net>,"B-Greek at Lists. Ibiblio. Org" 
><b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Mark 3:13, 14 - present and aorist
>Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:35:10 +1100
>
>I have a theory about this. My study in the area of verbal aspect within
>discourse has led me to the following conclusions about the present tense
>form:
>
>In narrative, the present occurs in 3 ways: 1. By far the most common use 
>is
>within discourse (direct or indirect); 2. It is used to INTRODUCE discourse
>(LEGEI etc. Here, PROSKALEITAI is doing this though the actual discourse is
>not recorded); 3. With verbs of motion (coming, going etc. - ANABANEI).
>
>I think this is explained aspectually, but I'm still working on it. I'm 
>also
>keen to hear what others think about this.
>
>Con Campbell,
>
>Canberra, Australia
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of John Colby
>Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 10:11 AM
>To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [B-Greek] Mark 3:13, 14 - present and aorist
>
>
>Mark 3:13, 14 reads:
>
>13. KAI ANABAINEI EIS TO OROS KAI PROSKALEITAI hOUS HQELEN AUTOS, KAI
>APHLQON PROS AUTON 14. KAI EPOIHSEN DWDEKA hOUS KAI APOSTOLOUS WNOMASEN 
>hINA
>WSIN MET AUTON KAI hINA APOSTELLHi AUTOUS KHPUSSEIN.
>
>Roughly translated:
>
>13. And he went up onto the mountain and called (to himself) those he
>desired, and they came to Him. 14. And he appointed twelve (whom he named
>apostles) so that they might be with Him and that He might send them to
>preach.
>
>Jesus ANABAINEI and PROSKALEITAI, but those he called did not APEPCONTAI 
>but
>APHLQON. Then Jesus EPOIHSEN and WNOMASEN but then APOSTELLHi. I understand
>that Mark uses that vivid/dramatic/historical present quite a few times, 
>but
>I am trying to understand why he switches between present and aorist,
>especially in verse 13. Is it because of the actual verb (like AP/ERCOMAI)
>or is there some other reason in this passage?
>
>Jonathan Colby
>Guyana, South America
>
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