[B-Greek] Acts 13,48

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 24 09:04:36 EDT 2010


Peter asked

<in Acts 13,48 we read: AKOUONTA DE TA EQNH ECAIREN, KAI EDOXAZON TON  LOGON TOU 
KURIOU, KAI EPISTEUSAN hOSOI HSAN TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION.

Parsons/Culy  (Acts, A Handbook on the Greek Text) write (p.269): "hOSOI. The  
relative pronoun introduces a headless relative clause [...] that serves  as the 
subject of EPISTEUSAN"

I ask myself whether this is the  best way to understand this relative clause. 
Isn't it possible to regard  "hOSOI HSAN TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION" as 
attributive to "TA EQNH"?  The relative clause introduced by hOSOI would then be 
a further  description of TA EQNH and no new subject is necessary. The head of 
the  relative clause would be TA EQNH.>

Hi, Peter,

I think OSOI k.t.l. refers to a subset of the Gentiles who not only rejoiced and 
glorified the word but believed in it.  But it is possible that Luke meant to 
say that all the Gentiles in question believed, in which case OSOI k.t.l.  would 
be in apposition to TA EQNH, at least according to the sense.

What does "a headless relative clause" mean?





FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: Peter Streitenberger <ps2866 at bingo-ev.de>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 5:41:40 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Acts 13,48

Dear friends,

in Acts 13,48 we read: AKOUONTA DE TA EQNH ECAIREN, KAI EDOXAZON TON LOGON TOU 
KURIOU, KAI EPISTEUSAN hOSOI HSAN TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION.

Parsons/Culy (Acts, A Handbook on the Greek Text) write (p.269): "hOSOI. The 
relative pronoun introduces a headless relative clause [...] that serves as the 
subject of EPISTEUSAN"

I ask myself whether this is the best way to understand this relative clause. 
Isn't it possible to regard "hOSOI HSAN TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION" as 
attributive to "TA EQNH"? The relative clause introduced by hOSOI would then be 
a further description of TA EQNH and no new subject is necessary. The head of 
the relative clause would be TA EQNH.

Thank you for your help !
Yours 
Peter, Germany

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