[B-Greek] Help!
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed May 25 10:10:58 EDT 2005
On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, at 01:45AM, Bai Jiansheng <baijiansheng at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>The Byz (Mt 16:13) reads: TINA ME LEGOUSIN OI ANQRWPOI EINAI TON UION
>TOU ANQRWPOU, the ME being added to the NA text, and the translation
>changing to something like, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man,
>am?" or, "Who do men say that I am? The Son of Man?" And this clause
>gave ancient interpreters much to talk about.
I think the above formulation--the phrasing--is a bit misleading; it's not as if the ME
was ADDED to the text of Nestle-Aland. This is not the forum for discussion
of textual variants, but I'd think offhand that ME and TON hUION TOU ANQRWPOU
were variant objects of LEGOUSIN (or subjects of EINAI, TINA being the
predicate accusative). What the NA editors did, of course, was to endeavor
to present what they believed was the earliest form of the text.
>Also, IMO translating indirect clauses using EINAI into English as "to
>be" infinitival clauses rarely does justice to contemporary English
>expression. We almost never say, "He said himself to be happy."
>Instead we almost always say, "He said that he was happy." We should
>use contemporary English expressions to express Greek clauses.
>
>Bai Jiansheng
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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