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

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Jan 27 19:00:59 EST 2006


RRedden604 at aol.com wrote:

>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.
>

HH: The Wallace reference on p. 233 in Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics 
is not really relevant, since it is about the article before the word 
"twelve," indicating that it is the well-known twelve. Perhaps someone 
else knows better than I do, but the parallels carry weight (Mt 
26:14-16; Lk 22:3-6). I take the espression as involving an understood verb:

Mark 14;10: KAI IOUDAS ISKARIWQ hO hEIS TWN DWDEKA APHLQEN PROS TOUS 
ARCIEREIS hINA AUTON PARADOI AUTOIS

And Judas Iscariot, who (was) one of the twelve, went away to the chief 
priests in order to betray him to them.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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