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Carlton Winbery
winberycl at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 15 12:25:17 EDT 2010
Stephen, I first was introduced to the terminology of "appositional Genitive" in A.T. Robertson (paragraph 4. p. 498). This use was common in Homer and Robertson lists multiple uses in the NT. The use is a step more than the basic function of the Genitive functioning to show kind or description. Both the substantive that is modified by the word in the genitive case and the word in the genitive refer to the same thing. Eg. city of Thyatyra. Both the noun city and the name of the city refer to the same reality, thus apposition.
Carlton Winbery
-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Carlson <stemmatic at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 13, 2010 9:24 PM
>To: Biblical Greek Mailing List <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [B-Greek] "Genitive of Apposition"
>
>I've been used to "epexegetical genitive," but I've recently come
>across it being called a "genitive of apposition" (e.g. Mounce,
>Wallace). How common is the term?
>
>I have to admit I don't like, but the terminology seems to confound it
>with a genitive in apposition.
>--
>Stephen C. Carlson
>Graduate Program in Religion
>Duke University
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