[B-Greek] Dative absolute (was: Mt 9:27)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Mar 4 11:18:58 EST 2004
At 2:48 PM +0100 3/4/04, Wieland Willker wrote:
>I have found the following construction called a "dative absolute", too:
>
>Matthew 14:6 GENESIOIS DE GENOMENOIS TOU HRWDOU WRCHSATO H QUGATHR THS
>HRWDIADOS ...
>
>(It has been changed into the Genitive in the Byzantine text.)
But there's no reason why that couldn't be understood as a dative of
temporal reference. Cf. Mk 6:21 KAI GENOMENHS hHMERAS EUKAIROU hOTE
hHRWiDHS TOIS GENESIOIS AUTOU DEIPONON EPOIHSEN TOIS MEGISTASIN AUTOU ...
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Carl W. Conrad
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