[B-Greek] PSALMOS TWi DAUID
Vasile Stancu
stancu.c.vasile at gmail.com
Wed May 4 17:48:20 EDT 2011
My feeling is that the Genitive, as we use it modernly, has certain
grades/nuances in Ancient Greek. When Luke says about ELISABET that
she is to Zacharias GUNH AUTWi or GUNH AUTOU, the relationship that he
describes is the same in both cases. Then, when a servant of Saul's
says that he found UION TWi IESSAI, it is clear that that son is
simply Iessai's son. Much could probably be said about the different
aspects involved, but for simplicity it is just enough, I believe, to
say that those are just different grades/nuances of 'genitival'
relationships.
Vasile Stancu
2011/5/4 Jason Hare <jason at thehebrewcafe.com>:
> Al,
>
> The Hebrew לְדָוִד [L:DfWiD] is ambiguous as it is, meaning that a
> Psalm with this attribution could be either "by David" or "for/to
> David."
>
> Does the LXX translate this title in different ways, at times as TOU
> DAUID (τοῦ Δαυίδ) and at times as TWi DAUID (τῷ Δαυίδ)? Meaning, not
> within a given context but only as part of the title of a Psalm?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Hare
> Rehovot, Israel
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>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Albert Pietersma
> <albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> When ancient evidence explains that TOU DAUID means "by David" and TW
>> DAUID "having to do with Dauid," it would seem rather farfetched to
>> have recourse to Homer, the more so in light of the translation mode
>> of the Greek Psalter. Furthermore, it is simply not true that Psalter
>> Greek can almost always be explained as "traditional Greek." Sorry,
>> Mark, but this is so well known that it scarcely needs demonstration.
>> Al
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