[B-Greek] Genitive in 2 Cor 1:5

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 3 16:33:59 EDT 2004


Dr. Conrad:


> While I think that each of these may be more fully
> characterized in terms
> of translation strategies, I personally think it
> would be better NOT to
> suppose that our translation strategies for dealing
> with genitive phrases
> must reflect some clear semantic distinction
> intended by the original
> speaker or writer.
> -- 

One last question, if I may...

Are you implying then that the fundamental semantic
categories a native Koine Greek reader/hearer would
have understood basically "fall under" your 3 main
categories (adnominal, partitive, ablative)? And from
these 3 main categories, a particular context might
bring out a slight nuance?

As you have pointed out in the past, I often confuse
what a Greek expression might legitimately mean with
how it can be translated. I have always worked under
the assumption that the objective of a translation ---
mine at least --- is to bring out the semantic nuances
of the native language expression (Greek). I'm
wondering if what your real concern is is with the
nuances that grammarians are trying to categorize
rather than the larger semantic categories under which
these nuances would fall?

=====
Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


	
		
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