[B-Greek] Mat 8:23 Dative Absolute? (Joseph Justiss)

Donald Vance donaldrvance at mac.com
Thu Mar 25 03:09:29 EDT 2010


In English and Greek, a relative pronoun may be the object of a  
preposition. This is not the case in Hebrew where, as a rule, the  
relative pronoun (asher) does not occur as the object of a  
preposition. "The ground on which you are standing" has to be rendered  
"the ground that you are standing on it." I'm failing to see this  
construction in Matt 8:23. Carl, can you clarify where you see it? Or  
were you thinking of some other construction?

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Donald R. Vance
donaldrvance at mac.com

On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:

>
> At the same time, it might be possible to discern a "Semitism" in the
> first
> instance (Mt 8:23?), where the second AUTWi might seem redundant (and
> indeed is in standard Greek): isn't this pretty much the way Hebrew  
> uses
> ASHER to start a relative clause and then concludes it with an
> appropriate
> pronoun-preposition conjunct?
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> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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