[B-Greek] Luke 5:1 infinitive and temple warning and Kaisareia inscriptions

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 13:18:04 EDT 2007


I'm reading rather belatedly, being caught up in a the nice stress of
an intensive SXOLH

Some items of interest:

1.  Carl egrapse
>  It seems to me that the KAI consecutive clause here is KAI AUTOS HN
hESTWS PARA THN LIMNHN. This is a pretty standard construction in
Luke and Acts (BDAG s.v. GINOMAI 4.f). I'd see the structure here as

EGENETO DE ... KAI AUTOS HN hESTWS PARA THN LIMNHN ...>

exactly, AKRIBWS, the KAI AUTOS HN is the follow up clause
and is what Luke is doing here,
or perhaps more precisely what he is doing with his source.

This structure never appears in Acts.
In Acts one finds GENESQAI in one of its other meanings, or else with
an INFINITIVE as the following MAIN clause (instead of KAI + finite).

2. Glad to see the Temple Warning inscription. Great stuff.
(On inscription readings, the class will be reading it in their sixth
week, along with some Acts texts 21-22.
[see Carl Rasmussen's picture on the web
http://holylandphotos.org/browse.asp?s=1,3,7,202,203,336,337&img=TWMRISAM06  ]
A piece of the inscription is in the Rockefeller museum here, but the
fuller inscription is in Istanbul.
The Qeodotos synagogue inscription is another one of high historical
value, [which they're doing in week 4 with a temple visit].)

I don't know how to post pictures to the list though this coming
week's field trip will be to Kaisareia where one of the inscriptions
is Rom 13:2 with the verb 'fear' spelled
QELEIS DE MH FOBISQAI THN EKSOUSIAN
TO AGAQON POIEI
"you want to not be fearing the authority ?
be doing the good thing"

It's nice to see the inscription in the Roman-Byz city, AND to see it
spelled 'like it sounds'. No one needed to correct the mosaics for the
man in the street.

(probably put in the pavement to encourage taxes, among other things.
And it is TWICE in the pavement. The other time FOBISQAI is spelled
FOBEISQAI. They both work, right?)

ERRWSQE

-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
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