[B-Greek] Nouns sorted according to gender

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu May 11 12:41:40 EDT 2006


On May 11, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Dirk Jongkind wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I came across a latin legal text from the first century AD (Lex
> Irnitana) in which at a certain point, the nouns in a list were sorted
> according to their grammatical gender. I was not aware that this
> phenomenon existed.
> This makes me curious, of course, if this happens in the New  
> Testament.
> Does anyone know?

I have no doubt that such a list could readily be compiled for Greek  
nouns in the NT. But I honestly wonder what particular value that  
might have, in view of the fact that the gender of common nouns has  
relatively little to do with biological gender.


Carl W. Conrad
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