[B-Greek] GRAFW of remote causation
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 2 12:47:58 EDT 2007
JN 21:24 hOUTOS ESTIN hO MAQHTHS hO MARTURWN PERI TOUTWN KAI hO
GRAYAS TAUTA, KAI OIDAMEN hOTI ALHQHS AUTOU hH MARTURIA ESTIN.
Richard Bauckham [1] challenges the notion that GRAFW was used in the
NT with a subject/agent who was only remotely involved with the
document which was produced. A modern example would be Ferdinand
deSaussure's Cour de Linguistique Generale which was compiled from
student notes. I don't intend to start a discussion of authorship of
any particular NT book, this is a question about the lexical
semantics of GRAFW.
Bauckham mentions J.N. Bernard (ICC, John p.713) as an often cited
source for this idea. However, Bernard didn't really take the idea
very far and his proposal was refuted as early as 1930 by F.R.M
Hitchcock "The Use of GRAPEIN," JTS 31 1930, pp. 271-75. A more
radical treatment of GRAFW (remote causation) is found in TDNT Vol. 1
p. 743 Gottlob Schrenk. Bauckham sets forth to refute G.Schrenk on
this issue.
No one questions that GRAFW can be used in the NT of someone giving
dictation (e.g. Paul), the notion that I would like to discuss here
is strictly GRAFW used in the same sense that Ferdinand deSaussure is
the remote cause of Cour de Linguistique Generale. Can anyone bring
to light evidence that GRAFW was used in that manner in the GNT or in
other ancient Greek texts?
Elizabeth Kline
[1] Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as
Eyewitness Testimony , Eerdmans, 2006 ISBN: 080283162 pp. 360f.
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