[B-Greek] Help With Translating Article Adverb

Barry H. nebarry at verizon.net
Fri Feb 18 19:36:36 EST 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: "Robert Campanaro" <rcampanaro at comcast.net>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Help With Translating Article Adverb


>
> On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Robert Campanaro wrote:
>
>> Thank you sir for your response, and I'll try to breath normally ;) We're 
>> almost there. So is there a key to identifying this vocabulary item 
>> usage, or would this just be part of the art aspect of Bible translation? 
>> Thank you again.
>
> I ought to let Barry speak for himself. If his response differs from
> mine, I'm sure he will -- he may anyway!! I don't think I'd want
> to call this a matter of "art" in Biblical translation. Of course, it's
> not really translation we're concerned with here so much as with
> understanding "ordinary" ancient Greek usage. The way that
> one comes to have a good grip on "ordinary" ancient Greek
> usage is to read (or speak -- if you have a conversational partner
> for ancient Greek ;-) -- voluminously. The use of the article to
> indicate that a word is itself being employed like a noun in
> a statement is not really uncommon. But the only way to acquire
> a sense of what's common is to read enough to encounter the
> recurring items used in ordinary discourse.

I couldn't have said it better myself.  Man, you can always tell a 
Classicist -- even though you can't tell them much!  :)  :)

N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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