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

Roger Hutchinson roger.hutchinson at comcast.net
Wed Sep 13 18:10:37 EDT 2006


Marshal is intersting.  Is there a rule governing the use of the article 
in Greek?  When does it modify the following noun and when would it 
refer back to the preceding noun.  Is there a rule governing this, and 
are there examples of this use in non-Biblical documents that might 
apply in this situation?

Roger Hutchinson

Elizabeth Kline wrote:

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> On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
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>> 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.
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> OK, this statement should be supported.
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> LK3:23 KAI AUTOS HN IHSOUS ARCOMENOS hWSEI ETWN  TRIAKONTA, WN hUIOS,
> hWS ENOMIZETO, IWSHF TOU HLI ...
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> Marshal (p.163) "The omission of the article before IWSHF led Godet  
> to the view that the whole phrase hWS ENOMIZETO IWSHF as a  
> parenthesis, so that Jesus was presented as the son of Eli ...".  
> Marshal considers this is a misunderstanding of the function of TOU.  
> He reads TOU as appositional to the preceding noun, not the article  
> for the following noun. On this reading there is no missing TOU. "...  
> so that the structure is: 'Jesus was the son ... of Joseph (who was)  
> the (son) of Eli (who was) the (son) of ...'".
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> I am certain that someone will take exception to this but keep in  
> mind you are arguing with I.H.Marshall no with E.Kline :-)
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> Elizabeth Kline
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