[B-Greek] Nouns sorted according to gender
Dirk Jongkind
dj214 at cam.ac.uk
Fri May 12 04:47:45 EDT 2006
I think you misunderstood me, Carl. What I am after are instances where
we find authors in the NT who use the grammatical gender of nouns as an
organising principle, for example in a list. Say something like, first
feminine nouns, then masculine, then neuter (or any other order). I am
not looking for a modern vocab list or so (in which there would be
little value indeed).
I am interested to what extent, in the New Testament, there is an
awareness of the gender of nouns beyond mere morphology.
Cheers,
Dirk
Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
> 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
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
>
>
>
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