[B-Greek] Jn 1:47 - ALHQWS = 'true'??
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 16 20:26:18 EDT 2006
On Sep 16, 2006, at 8:48 PM, wayfaringman at netzero.net wrote:
> I was thinking mainly of Koine Greek in general and John's Gospel in
> particular. I'm not familiar with Ancient Greek. I appreciate you
> giving us that information. Perhaps you could tell us how they match
> up the adverbs in Ancient Greek with the words they modify and give us
> some examples if it's not too much trouble?
>
Ancient Greek includes Koine.
The NT examples were in my last post.
Adverb is an inclusive term. It makes more sense to talk about the
word in question in the text under discussion. Scholars like F.Danker
and D.Carson do not agree on where to attach ALHQWS in JOHN 1:47.
Danker lists it as attributive with ISRAHLITHS. Beasly-Murray
translates it that way (John WBC). D.Carson states that ALHQWS is
always an adverb in John and therefore it must be an adverb here.
That sounds circular doesn't it?
JOHN 1:47 EIDEN hO IHSOUS TON NAQANAHL ERCOMENON PROS AUTON KAI LEGEI
PERI AUTOU: IDE ALHQWS ISRAHLITHS EN hWi DOLOS OUK ESTIN.
Talking about words like ALHQWS when they are functioning as adverbs
G.Cooper (Attic Syntax 1.61.1.0) says that "the regular position of
the adverb is before, but not necessarily immediately before, a word
it goes with." He also points out that the adverb can come after the
word it modifies but he considers this a marked word order (not
Cooper's terminology).
If we follow Danker on ALHQWS, I would assume the word order "rules"
be the same as any other attributives (e.g. adjectives,
substantives). Im not sure this would be much different than the
Cooper rules above. I will leave that question to someone else.
RE:TOP Scholars
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Elizabeth Kline
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