[B-Greek] Word Emphasis in Matthew 9:32
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 31 22:40:45 EDT 2011
Kevin wrote:
<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.>
Hi, Kevin,
As a semantic minimalist, I've had the same thought, and this seems to me the
most likely explanation of why a scribe would make minor changes but not major
ones. If meaning were the issue, we would see more meaningful changes. I think
euphony also explains the variances in other things, like the tenses, which
particles/connectives are used, the absence or presence of the article, PRWTOS
versus PRWTON, etc.
Mark L
Φωσφορος
FWSFOROS MARKOS
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From: Kevin P. Edgecomb <kevin at bombaxo.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 5:30:10 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Word Emphasis in Matthew 9:32
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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