[B-Greek] AUTOS in Predicate Position in Luke 13:31
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 10:40:35 EDT 2010
STEFANW
XAIREIN
The question with AYTOS is a good one and moves in more than one
direction.
First, in the Greek world I suspect that AYTOS would be thought of as
one word. Think of 'the car it' versus 'the it car'. The second example is
using the word 'it' as an adjective so it is slightly perceptable as
distinct, and within the same language. On the other hand,
the first example is what we call an appositive. Of course, English
does not use "it" in this manner. But the Greeks did.
As for the idiom in the Gospel of Luke, you might not be surprised to
hear that it lines up with a Semitic usage. And 'it the car' became the
usage that parallels Greek 'the it car', while Greek 'it the car' ["the car
itself"] was 'the car its soul' and 'the car its bone' in various Semitic
languages, like Arabic, Aramaic, and MishnaicHebrew. Unfortunately, I
am rather far away from any sources so I cannot give you any references.
Maybe next month. (but look at Lev 23.28-29 and Esther 8.1 for starters.
Plus Dan 5.5.)
Glad to hear that you are teaching some Greek. The big question comes
when one tries to run 90% of classtime in Greek and explain the above.
(Yes, it's doable.)
ERRWSO
IWANHS
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