[B-Greek] embrimaomai

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 14 02:30:00 EST 2008


On Feb 13, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Iver Larsen wrote:

> Which of the two are you referring to, since the first expression  
> has a middle but no reflexive, and the second is active with a  
> reflexive pronoun as accusative object?

Thank you Iver,

Your right. I was a little foggy when I wrote this. What I am really  
trying to do is to verify that what we see in John 11:33,38 are  
indeed GREEK idioms. So far I have not been able to find anything  
like these expressions in extra biblical sources. M.Black's  
suggestion that this is translation greek from a Syriac "ethazaz  
bruah" is difficult to evaluate not having a lot of Syriac documents  
at my disposal. The fact that Black had to resort to a Syriac source  
seems to indicate that the LXX wasn't helpful. So far I haven't found  
any close parallels in the LXX.

In extra biblical literature, from what I have been able to look at  
so far, It appears that the narrative expressions which report  
emotional states in humans in classical texts don't go about it in  
the same manner we see in John 11:33,38. But I am still looking.

Thank you,

Elizabeth Kline







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