[B-Greek] Luke 4:7
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 15 03:03:48 EDT 2007
On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Iver Larsen wrote:
> I would consider the conditional clause in 4:7 (and in 4:3 and 4:9)
> more salient than the main
> clause.
Jonathan Robie's point seems to make sense in regard to Lk 4:3,
LUKE 4:3 EIPEN DE AUTWi hO DIABOLOS: EI hUIOS EI TOU QEOU, EIPE TWi
LIQWi TOUTWi hINA GENHTAI ARTOS. 4 KAI APEKRIQH PROS AUTON hO
IHSOUS: GEGRAPTAI hOTI OUK EP' ARTWi MONWi ZHSETAI hO ANQRWPOS.
Here, EI hUIOS EI TOU QEOU is part of the shared information common
to both the speaker and the addressee. The command EIPE ... ARTOS is
the new information. Within the command TWi LIQWi TOUTWi is part of
the shared information and hINA GENHTAI ARTOS is the new
information. A further indicator that ARTOS is salient is that Jesus
responds with a statement about bread not stones.
I don't recall reading anything specifically focusing on the
pragmatic structure of Greek conditional clauses. Perhaps Levinsohn
has something to say about them.
BTW, the "framework" I am using is Topic-Focus as defined in chapter
2 of Helma Dik (1995).
Elizabeth Kline
Helma Dik, Word Order in Ancient Greek: A Pragmatic Account of Word
Order Variation in Herodotus. Amsterdam Studies in Classical
Philology 5. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1995. Pp. xii + 294. f.
143.10. ISBN 90-5063-457-5.
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