[B-Greek] The Genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 13 13:24:41 EDT 2006


Roger,

I just looked once again at I.H.Marshall (Luke NIGTC 1979,pp.  
157-161) who has a reasonably lucid discussion of this issue.

LK3:23 KAI AUTOS HN IHSOUS ARCOMENOS hWSEI ETWN  TRIAKONTA, WN hUIOS,  
hWS ENOMIZETO, IWSHF TOU HLI ...

I think it is useful to maintain a clear distinction between  
syntactical structure and semantic inference based on logic. The  
statement "ENOMIZETO applies only to N hUIOS, hWS ... IWSHF, not the   
whole genealogy" is a statement about syntactical structure.  
However,  if this is a genealogy of Joseph, then then ENOMIZETO might  
have implications for the entire genealogy by logical inference. See  
Marshall on this.

The reading that attempts to link IHSOUS directly to HLI, with the  
comment about IWSHF as a parenthesis, sounds to me like exegesis  
driven by a need to prove something. This is not an exegesis forum,  
so I will briefly say that I read this as a genealogy of Joseph as  
Jesus' legal parent which had ramifications for Second Temple Judaism  
that are hard to appreciate for western post-moderns.


On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Roger Hutchinson wrote:

> Let me see if I understand your comments.
>
> 1.  First of all the TOU QEOU in v.38 applies to ADAM.
>
> Working through the genealogy, if TOU QEOU applies (only?) to Adam  
> then TOU ADAM applies (only ?) to EHQ and TOU MATQAT should apply  
> (only?) to HLI.  Does this mean that we cannot (or should not) link  
> HLI with AEVI so that we could not read TOU HLI TOU MATQAT TOU AEVI  
> and take it to suggest TOU HLI TOU AEVI?

I don't teach greek. Perhaps one of the veteran greek professors here  
can help you out with this. I vaguely perceived some confusion here,  
but could not pin it down. My statement "TOU QEOU in v.38 applies to  
ADAM" was intended to address what I understood as move to propagate  
TOU QEOU backwards through the genealogy. I may have completely miss  
read your intentions.


Elizabeth Kline







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