[b-greek] Re: PISTEUW and indirect objects

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 06:56:03 EDT


At 6:58 PM +0100 7/19/01, Patrick James wrote:
>Is there any significant difference between PISTEUW with EIS
>and an accusative case and the Classical usage of PISTEUW
>and a dative case (both of which are found in John 3.15-16)?

This is a good question, and one on which there may not be any full
consensus among B-Greekers. I am inclined personally to think that there is
NOT any fundamental difference, but that Hellenistic Greek in this respect
is already in process of transition toward the ultimate atrophy of the
dative case, for which EIS + acc. and PROS + acc. come to be more standard
usages. Certainly we see the complement of LEGW/LALW to be PROS + acc. as
well as a simple dative. I think that at this point in the language these
are concurrent expressions of the same semantic notion.

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Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus) Most months: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad@ioa.com WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/

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