[B-Greek] Dative participial clauses

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 19 14:29:01 EDT 2007


Searching Josephus for fronted dative participle clauses

“AJ”, 1.11.8.1
	Ταῦτα Κύρου καταγγείλαντος τοῖς  
Ἰσραηλίταις ἐξώρμησαν 2 οἱ τῶν δύο  
φυλῶν ἄρχοντες τῆς Ἰούδα καὶ  
Βενιαμίτιδος οἵ τε 3 Λευῖται καὶ οἱ  
ἱερεῖς εἰς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα. πολλοὶ  
γὰρ κατέμειναν
  “AJ”, 1.11.9.1
ἐν τῇ Βαβυλῶνι τὰ κτήματα  
καταλιπεῖν οὐ θέλοντες. καὶ  
παραγενομένοις αὐτοῖς οἱ τοῦ  
βασιλέως φίλοι πάντες ἐβοήθουν  
καὶ συνεισέφερον εἰς τὴν τοῦ ναοῦ  
κατασκευὴν οἱ μὲν χρυσὸν οἱ δ’  
ἄργυρον οἱ δὲ βοσκημάτων πλῆθος  
σὺν ἵπποις.

AJ, 1.11.8.1
	TAUTA KUROU KATAGGEILANTOS TOIS ISRAHLITAIS EXWRMHSAN 2 hOI TWN DUO  
FULWN ARCONTES THS IOUDA KAI BENIAMITIDOS hOI TE 3 LEUITAI KAI hOI  
hIEREIS EIS TA hIEROSOLUMA. POLLOI GAR KATEMEINAN

AJ, 1.11.9.1
EN THi BABULWNI TA KTHMATA KATALIPEIN OU QELONTES. KAI PARAGENOMENOIS  
AUTOIS hOI TOU BASILEWS FILOI PANTES EBOHQOUN KAI SUNEISEFERON EIS  
THN TOU NAOU KATASKEUHN hOI MEN CRUSON hOI D' ARGURON hOI DE  
BOSKHMATWN PLHQOS SUN hIPPOIS.

PARAGENOMENOIS is not syntactically independent, EBOHQOUN takes a  
dative argument. The clause initial PARAGENOMENOIS ties the following  
clause to the immediately preceeding context. I suppose you could  
also say that PARAGENOMENOIS is backgrounded for what thats worth.


Elizabeth Kline







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