[B-Greek] historical present tense in romans

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Fri Oct 7 13:42:17 EDT 2005


I've thought about that myself, but I think the only problem is that Historical presents are only found in the third person.  So I don't think that fits here.

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Kelton Graham 
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> Dr. Buth, Carl Conrad, and other list members 
> 
> After studying a healthy stack of both secular and religious books, essays 
> and commentaries on the use of Historical Present Tense in many languages 
> (including items from a list obtained through this forum) I have found very 
> little that directly addresses this subject in the book of Romans. In my 
> opinion (and in the opinion of some other sources) the text in Romans 
> 7:14-25 is a textbook example of the HPT as Paul refers to his past 
> experience under the law. Do you agree with this conclusion? 
> 
> Obviously the study of the Historical Present Tense opens up a linguistic 
> can of worms in Greek as well as any other language because the term is 
> applied to a variety of contexts and usages, but I am Referring to the most 
> common denominator: a present tense verb expressing a past action. 
> 
> Joseph Descans 
> San Diego, Ca. 
> BA / Lit. Point Loma Nazarene University 
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