[B-Greek] QEOS a proper name?
Patrick Narkinsky
patrick at narkinsky.com
Tue Jul 27 00:33:45 EDT 2004
To a more methodological point: what linguistic cues, if any, would we
expect to see if Paul were using XRISTOS as a name rather than a title?
In English, the use of the definite article is significant, but it
certainly doesn't have the same significance in Greek. The more I
think of it, the more I can't see how one would tell the difference in
Greek without appealing to semantic considerations.
Did Koine speakers perhaps regard proper names as somehow akin to
titles?
Patrick
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