[B-Greek] Dative Absolute? Archives
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 23 14:00:34 EST 2006
"Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com> wrote: I would take the PROSEUCOMENOU MOU EN TWi hIERWi as internal to
the GENESQAI ME EN EKSTASEI element as a genitive absolute.
I'd take the whole as "And it happened to me after I returned to
Jerusalem that as I was praying in the temple I entered into a
trance ..."
But if the subject of the genitive absolute is the same as the subject of the main
(infinitive) clause, why is a genitive absolute construction used? I thought a genitive
absolute was independent (hence, "absolute") of the main clause and had a different
person or thing for its subject?
Eric S. Weiss
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