[B-Greek] Genitive Absolute - a fresh look

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Tue Oct 31 18:54:01 EST 2006


 Lois Fuller is a "she", and has been on the missionary field in Nigeria teaching Greek, missions and biblical studies for roughly the last 20 years. She has written several books that would be accessible to her Nigerian students. Back in the day, she was a TA at Trinity and graded some of Stan Porter's papers. Now she is an ABD doctoral student working with Stan Porter at McMaster Divinity college. 
 
 Yes, she uses Mounce, but adheres to aspectual theory among other things and is aware of how much has to be retaught at the next level. We still don't have a finished copy of Porter's first year grammar (not his fault).
 
 I agree with Carl--her article has some fresh information "in print". 
    Cindy Westfall 
 Assistant Professor
 McMaster Divinity College
 
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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)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
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