[B-Greek] Gal 2:13
Carlton Winbery
winberycl at earthlink.net
Mon May 23 22:50:29 EDT 2005
Mitch Larramore wrote.
>KAI SUNUPEKRIQHSAN AUTWi [KAI] hOI LOIPOI IOUDAIOI,
>hWSTE KAI BARNABAS SUNAPHCQH AUTWN THi hUPOKRISEI.
>
>I have two, separate questions here. The first is
>rather insignificant. I wonder if the first century
>Greeks pronounced SUNUPEKRIQHSAN as SUNhUPEKRIQHSAN?
>Phonetically, it seems equally effortless to include
>the rough breathing. Seems odd that in the same verse
>you would pronounce forms of this word differently.
My guess would be that it was pronounced without the rough breathing.
That would not be as readable with the rough breathing following a
nasal liquid.
>Second question deals with agency. I ask myself every
>time now when I see a -QH form if it could be Middle
>or Passive. I understand that if an agent is
>mentioned, it will be Passive. Is that right? Does an
>"agent" have to be a person? Or, could THi hUPOKRISEI
>be the agent that caused Barnabas to follow suit? What
>also leads me to see a Middle here even though there
>might be an agent is in the previous verse, we are
>told that Peter AFWRIZEN hEAUTON. There is no passive
>sense here.
THi hUPOKRISEI looks like an agent to me. The verb SUNAPAGW I think
would better be understood as "to lead astray" of "to lead away from
right action."
>
>Which structure gives more emphasis to the semantics
>of a Middle: 1) Active verb with reflexive pronoun, or
>2) Middle voice verb? (My guess would be an Active
>with reflexive pronoun since there really can't be
>ambiguity in that construct.)
>
>Mitch Larramore
>Sugar Land, Texas
This would require detailed examination of contexts. My hunch is that
there would be times when there was no descernable difference.
Grace,
Carlton Winbery
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Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
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