[B-Greek] Syntax of Col 1:22

Michael Aubrey mga318 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 18 12:56:45 EDT 2009


I actually wrote about this some time ago. As far as I can tell, at least for the Hellenistic Period, Genitive NPs are not grammatical when they appear following a noun phrase internal prepositional phrase or adjective phrase.

http://evepheso.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/determining-the-rules-of-greek-grammar/

The two examples of this happening in the NT, Josephus, Philo, and the Apostolic Fathers are by a non-native speaker who would be more inclined to make this kind of error.

Mike Aubrey



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From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
To: greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:43:41 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Syntax of Col 1:22

I don't know off hand if Paul ever puts a genitive modifier in front  
of a prepositional phrase containing the head noun. It would be  
unusual, perhaps not impossible.

Elizabeth Kline




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