[B-Greek] Bad grammer in Rev??
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Jan 12 13:11:02 EST 2005
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:06:06 -0600 "Jeffrey B. Gibson"
<jgibson000 at comcast.net> writes:
>
>
> George F Somsel wrote:
>
> > It is well recognized that the grammar in the Apocalypse is
> anything but
> > standard. This has led many to postulate that the author was a
> > Palestinian Jew who learned Greek late.
>
> Or who wrote in Greek but thought in Aramaic.
>
> > I have a different theory
> > regarding the grammar of Revelation. I think it was written by
> someone
> > fully capable of writing correct Greek but who was writing in
> dialect.
> >
>
> What dialect would that be? Do we have other examples of it
> anywhere?
>
> Jeffrey
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> Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)
>
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>
> jgibson000 at comcast.net
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That would be the dialect of a genuine Palestinian Jew speaking Greek.
Do we have examples of this? I'm not sure. It might simply be one of
those things that he heard on the street. I remember when I was a kid
listening to a radio program called "Life with Luigi" in which a
fictional Italian imigrant would write home to his mother in Italy. This
was full of non-standard English. I suspect that this is the case here.
george
gfsomsel
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