[B-Greek] ACTS 15:1 TWi EQEI TWi MWUSEWS
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 31 01:21:34 EDT 2006
ACTS 15:1 KAI TINES KATELQONTES APO THS IOUDAIAS EDIDASKON TOUS
ADELFOUS hOTI, EAN MH PERITMHQHTE TWi EQEI TWi MWUSEWS, OU DUNASQE
SWQHNAI.
Barrett (ICC Acts) and Parsons/Culy (Acts Handbook) seem to be in a
muddle about what to call this dative. Lets forget about giving it a
lable/name (who cares?). Would someone like to explain how this
dative is functioning in this context. The gloss "in accordance
with ..." seems to be standard, but what can we say about this
dative beyond creating an overly specific category which IMHO
accomplishes nothing (e.g. Parsons/Culy "dative of rule", after
D.Wallace).
I have the grammars there is no need to quote them. What for example,
would a linguist from the functional school say about TWi EQEI TWi
MWUSEWS?
Of course non-linguists are welcome to speak up as well.
I really didn't have any problem with this dative when I read it
initially, the problem arrived when I looked into Barrett, Parsons/
Culy, ...
Elizabeth Kline
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