[B-Greek] Curiosa in Biblical Greek

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Sat May 7 12:25:13 EDT 2005


On May 7, 2005, at 12:01 PM, D Jongkind wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> For want of a better expression, I labelled this thread curiosa, 
> though I am not looking for the really absurd here. What I am looking 
> for are passages that happen to illustrate a specific grammatical 
> phenomenon quite dramatically. Here are two examples, I hope the 
> collective wisdom of the list can come up with many others.
>
> My favourite verse to illustrate the three grammatical genders is 
> Ephesians 4:5 EIS SWMA, MIA PISTIS, EN BAPTISMA, nicely summing up all 
> three forms of EIS in one verse.
>
> Another one is 1 Chron 11:2:
> KAI EIPEN KURIOS O QEOS SOU SOI SU POIMANEIS TON LAON MOU TON ISRAHL, 
> with three cases of SU in a row.
But since the Greek simply mimics the source text isomorphically, this 
can scarcely be cited as a phenomenon of Greek usage.
Al
>
> I am sure there are many others in the NT and LXX .Feel free to share 
> them.
>
> Cheers,
> Dirk Jongkind
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