[B-Greek] Word Emphasis in Matthew 9:32
Kevin P. Edgecomb
kevin at bombaxo.com
Thu Mar 31 19:30:10 EDT 2011
Mark Lightman wrote:
You bet, but the nuances are so nuanced that they cannot be demonstrated or
falsified. [snip]
I write:
Yet Euripides was writing in iambic trimeter. Metrical writing cannot be used as evidence for nuance-laden word ordering without taking into account the meter.
Relatedly, I've been thinking lately that alternate word order in exemplars of a given passage may be related not so much to nuance as to euphony, a quality of a writing that was (and is) particularly important to Greeks. Those texts written without euphony in mind may have been altered in various ways in order to adapt them toward such. I wonder whether much of the word order alteration in various NT manuscripts may likely be related to this rather than anything else.
Regards,
Kevin Edgecomb
Berkeley, California
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