[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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