[B-Greek] Mark 14:10 hO hEIS TWN DWDEKA

RRedden604 at aol.com RRedden604 at aol.com
Fri Jan 27 18:15:20 EST 2006


Without entering the debate on the Synoptic Problem, perhaps we could just  
address the possibilities regarding the presence of the article.  ATR  simply 
notes, "Some have held that Mark here calls Judas the primate among the  
twelve. Rather he means to call attention to the idea that he was the one of the  
twelve who did this deed."   Seems like a simple and satisfying  explanation.  
Max and Mary write, ". . . class. that one (known to  the reader) who was one 
of, but in HGk simply partitive, one  of" (154).  Wallace agrees. "The article 
thus belongs to the  'well-known' category as well" (233).  Among his 
illustrations,  he cites Mark 14:10.  
 
ATR lists a lengthy bibliography on the debate over the "primacy" of Judas  
on page 1394 of his large grammar.  
 
The mss. evidence may indicate a struggle with the presence of  the article 
for the same reasons felt by Webb.
 
Rob Redden




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