[B-Greek] John's prologue prose or poetry?
bowick at idirect.com
bowick at idirect.com
Sat Dec 17 19:54:50 EST 2005
Been doing some more thinking on this. My seeing this as poetry is based
entirely on applying my understanding of Hebrew poetic forms to John 1:1.
Is this valid? I have no experience with Greek poetic structure. Can
anyone comment on how it might differ?
James Bowick
> It definitely looks like poetry to me. The lines are in parallel
> thematically, structuraly and even phonetically, especially in the vowels.
> Each line seems to build on the idea of the one previous almost like
> steps, gving it a building feeling. I have done no reading on this, but
> these are my admittedly casual observations.
>
> James Bowick
>
>> I was just reading John's prologue, John 1:1 ff. To me this passage has
>> always looked like it has a lot of poetic elements in it but I don't see
>> that commented on very much. What is the consensus of the list. Is this
>> prose or poetry?
>> Sincerely,
>> Michael Abernathy
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