[B-Greek] aorist and its temporal reference

Michael travel54 at telus.net
Wed Apr 13 14:59:21 EDT 2005


Hello,
 
I was googling for more enlightenment on the aorist "tenses" when I came
across your post.  You mention a chapter in Porter.  Could you please give
more more bibliographical information on this book? 
 
 Some years back, I studied under a professor whose doctoral dissertation
studied "righteousness" in Matthew.  And this man reminded me that Jesus and
the apostles and all of the NT writers were Jews, and that we make a grave
error reading the NT Greek as though it had been written by either Greek
scholars or even ordinary "gentiles."  To that end, one day I had my Greek
Bible open to Matthew chapter 5.  And as my eye moved along the text, it
became quite apparent that this was a rather woodenly literal translation
from "Hebrew" (or its cognate cousin Aramaic, or even Rabbinic Hebrew.)  As
an exercise, I picked up my pen and jotted off the translation and marvelled
at my little discovery.  I realize that this was nothing new, but
discovering something for oneself can be quite thrilling and a great
teacher.  After that, semiticisms of all sorts became quite apparent.   I
would like to see how others have examined and written about this topic.
 
Michael Watson
Edmonton, Canada 
 
Con Campbell concampbell
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Thanks Rolf for that informative post. Just a couple of acknowledgments re

methodology... It seems that Rod Decker excludes translation Greek from his

analysis. See p.95 of his book: 'Of the 518 aorist indicative forms in Mark,

7 occur in translation Greek and were thus not considered.' Also, speaking

of less specific Semitic interference, Porter has a whole chapter on the

issue (Ch.3: ' The Influence of Semitic Languages on Verbal Aspect in the

New Testament').



While you rightly suggest that the methodology needs to be clarified/sorted

out, I think there has been consideration of some of the issues you raised.



Cheers,



Con Campbell



Canberra, Australia



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