[B-Greek] Genitive Absolute - a fresh look

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Oct 31 14:16:17 EST 2006


On Oct 31, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

>
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:14 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
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>>> A paper by
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>> Lois K. Fuller
>
> I am halfway through the paper which is worth reading but doesn't
> seem to present any radical revision to the present understanding of
> the Greek GA among linguists.

Ah, but linguists know things about Greek that nobody else knows.

I just finished the paper and found it very illuminating. She(?)  
prefers to speak of the "Gentiive Construction," argues that the  
genitive case here is/derives from  the adverbial usage of the  
genitive of time within which, the genitive setting the framework  
within which the event of the main clause takes place. I think the  
paper nicely explains why the genitive "construction" can so often  
have as its subject the subject of the main clause. There's a neat  
account of a second-century papyrus fragment with a great number of  
these genitive "constructions" in it.

Two GNT passages which I found illuminated about it are Acts  
22.17-18. and Mark 6:21-22.

>
> Who is Lois K. Fuller? He (?) teaches introduction to greek at MacDiv
> and this paper was an SBL presentation 11/2005. Fuller wrote a book
> on missiology   "The Missionary and His Work" (Jos, Nigeria: Nigeria
> Evangelical Missionary Institute, 1991). Otherwise not much
> information out there about the author. Probably a Ph.D. candidate
> under S.E. Porter.
>
> Interesting that L.K.Fuller uses Mounce for greek 101.
>
> http://www.macdiv.ca/courses/documents/Fuller--NTGreek.pdf

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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