ECM Mark 8:35
Posted: August 20th, 2021, 9:41 am
Evangelical Textual Criticism blog just posted about the recent release of the ECM version of Mark.
https://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blo ... es-to.html
I was going into my electronic NA28 and adding notes against each of the locations of textual changes so I know what they arehttp://egora.uni-muenster.de/intf/servi ... t_NA28.pdf I noticed that John 8:35 has been changed from ὃς γὰρ ἐὰν θέλῃ τὴν ⸂ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ⸃ σῶσαι ἀπολέσει αὐτήν Mark 8:35 (NA28) to have the aorist subjunctive απολεσῃ
Any thoughts on whether this has much of an impact on the text? How would you translate it with the subjunctive rather than the future here? something like a hortatory subjunctive "let him lose it"? Deliberative doesn't seem right here, "should he lose it?"
I seem to recall that after/around the time of the new testament the eta and the epsilon-iota diphtong were merging in sound which could cause some confusion between the subjunctive and the future. I also think I recall discussions around the future being similar in force to the subjunctive in the sense of it being tentative and in some way projecting / anticipating something.
https://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blo ... es-to.html
I was going into my electronic NA28 and adding notes against each of the locations of textual changes so I know what they arehttp://egora.uni-muenster.de/intf/servi ... t_NA28.pdf I noticed that John 8:35 has been changed from ὃς γὰρ ἐὰν θέλῃ τὴν ⸂ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ⸃ σῶσαι ἀπολέσει αὐτήν Mark 8:35 (NA28) to have the aorist subjunctive απολεσῃ
Any thoughts on whether this has much of an impact on the text? How would you translate it with the subjunctive rather than the future here? something like a hortatory subjunctive "let him lose it"? Deliberative doesn't seem right here, "should he lose it?"
I seem to recall that after/around the time of the new testament the eta and the epsilon-iota diphtong were merging in sound which could cause some confusion between the subjunctive and the future. I also think I recall discussions around the future being similar in force to the subjunctive in the sense of it being tentative and in some way projecting / anticipating something.