[B-Greek] word order

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Mon May 30 11:41:57 EDT 2005


Does it really make a whole lot of sense to talk about
word order IN GENERAL? It would seem more logical to
me to discuss the word order of A PARTICULAR AUTHOR,
but that seems to me to be the very problem of the
GNT...there just isn't enough data to make firm
conclusions, right?. (Jude or James really haven't
given us too much to work with, and who knows if they
had others compose their letters.) If you study Paul's
word order, how do you account for Romans, which we
are told was actually composed by Tertius? How many
other of Paul's epistles (not those called disputed
Pauline letters, which I guess by definition are
believed to be composed by someone other than Paul)
did he use someone else to compose (where they Greeks
or Hebrews or Chinese)? And of course, how much leeway
did Paul give them as they composed? A skilled writer
will consider his/her audience...so wouldn't an author
compose in such a way that best communicated to
his/her recipients (as opposed to employing his/her
own literary preferences)? I suppose the writer of
Hebrews had a Jewish audience in mind, but the Gospels
were written for a wider audience. All of which leads
me to this question: Is there statistical work done
whereby the GNT is compared to extra-biblical
documents of the first century? Is there such a thing
as "correct word order"?


Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas

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