[B-Greek] Steve Runge's new Discourse Grammar of the GNT

Jeffrey B Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Sat Mar 13 19:46:45 EST 2010


On 3/13/2010 5:01 PM, George F Somsel wrote:
> The interesting thing about the story of Oedippus is that it reveals an aversion to consanguinous relations whereas the Ptolemies who were Greek rulers of Egypt engaged in them freely.  It would seem that they "went native."
>    
No.  They went divine.  In this area gods are allowed what mortals are 
denied.

Jeffrey

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