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- May 1st, 2019, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Tenses
- Replies: 14
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Re: Tenses
I haven't read Rijksbaron, but I guess from the tables you posted that he laid out the usual explanation of the tenses ie. temporals in the indicative, state after a perfect, etc. Here's the thing about stativity after an action though, and one of the writers in Greek Verb Revisited mentioned this ...
- April 30th, 2019, 9:43 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Tenses
- Replies: 14
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Re: Tenses
Campbell in forcing an imperfective aspect on the perfect tense, translated this to "I am fighting the good fight, I am finishing the race, I am keeping the faith", but I don't think that's correct. Paul was saying he had done those tasks (in the sense of accomplishment), not that he's still doing ...
- April 30th, 2019, 9:40 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Tenses
- Replies: 14
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Re: Tenses
I've discovered that Rijksbaron is one of the editors of the very recently published Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek . It's advertised as shedding light from modern linguistics on all aspects of classical Greek grammar ... I recommend reading some of it first before laying out the cash. My exp...
- April 14th, 2019, 7:23 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Ephesians 5:32 – λέγω εἰς and καὶ εἰς
- Replies: 13
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Re: Ephesians 5:32 — λέγω εἰς and καὶ εἰς
We have a similar construction in English: "I can speak to this issue," though it has a very narrow distribution. Josephus, Antiquities 5.209 has: καὶ οὕτως μὲν ἡ νίκη αὕτη περιέστη κατὰ τὰ ὑπὸ Δαβώρας εἰρημένα εἰς γυναῖκα And thus this victory stands according to what was spoken by Deborah about a ...
- April 9th, 2019, 2:28 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8446
Re: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
Here is an example where the verb is fronted in it's clause: εἰσὶν δὲ ἐξειλεγμένοι Περσῶν οἱ ἄριστοι δόξαντες ἐν ἡλικίᾳ τέτταρες... This is close to what we're looking for, but I'm not sure how the δὲ and participle would affect things. Here's an example using the demonstrative: ἔπειτά εἰσιν οὗτοι ...
- April 9th, 2019, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
- Replies: 25
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Re: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
The so-called "sentence accent" can also be for a Topicalization, Contextualization and thus non-Focal. So I find "sentence accent" unhelpful by itself. (See my comments immediately above.) Clitics are phonological and prosodic phenomenon, if you're going to account for them without talking about p...
- April 8th, 2019, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
- Replies: 25
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Re: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
Hyperbaton? Is this how you'd label what's going on in the attached image? (Not meaning to distract here... please be forgiving.) If not, do you know of a name for fronting the PN in such a way? οὗτοί εἰσιν υἱοὶ θεοῦ οὗτοι υἱοί εἰσιν θεοῦ εἴσιν οὗτοι υἱοὶ θεοῦ οὗτοι υἱοὶ θεοῦ εἰσίν Any pointers as ...
- March 31st, 2019, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8446
Re: Syntax in Josephus Antiquities
These patterns are in the NT as well, just less common. Quantifier-Article-PP-N is very normal. There isn't a name for this above. But this: Modifier [VERB] Noun Is called hyperbaton. It's a means of structuring in the information flow in a particular manner. It happens in the NT, but becomes more a...
- March 31st, 2019, 4:06 pm
- Forum: Vocabulary
- Topic: Πείθω in the perfect - Active form, passive sense?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Πείθω in the perfect - Active form, passive sense?
I have noticed that in the NT, the instances of Πείθω in the perfect (24x out of 53) are some times passive in meaning ("having been persuaded"), but active in form. Some instances are Romans 2:19, "If you are persuaded (πέποιθάς) that you are a guide to the blind", and Philippians 1:25, "Having be...
- March 28th, 2019, 1:32 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Hebrews 2,10 - meaning of the Aorist participle
- Replies: 9
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Re: Hebrews 2,10 - meaning of the Aorist participle
Participles don't specify sequentiality one way or the other. While aorists are used for event sequencing, but that's an indicative thing that isn't at play in the non-finite forms. I don't think "modal' is the right word for "in bringing." My sense is that particular translation of the participle i...