Re: Identifying grammatical meaning of cases

From: Bruce Terry (terry@bible.acu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 1996 - 11:07:18 EST


On Sun, 21 Jan 1996, Kenneth Litwak wrote:

> I've been prepping for my doctoral Greek exam, which includes
>questions like "What kind of genitive appears in the construction?",
>or so I'm told. In reading through grammars I have, I'm confronted with
>multiple, disparrate systems of identification, and I'm unsure as to which
>one to use, i.e., which one is more likely to be recognized as
>"standard" or at least known to most NT scholars.

Actually, for an exam, it doesn't matter what most NT scholars think, only
what your examiners think. Ask this question of him/her/them. Should they
refuse to answer, for some reason that escapes me, pick a system and go with
it. They should be familiar with BDF, D&M, B&W, and even Porter. Just say
which system you are using.

> Just to keep email to a minimum, can someone tell me when it is generally
>thought that EPISKOPOS and PRESBUTEROS take on technical meanings?
>I don't think they have it in the NT, but they seem clearly to have it in
>Ignatius to the Ephesians, for example.

A point of clarification, please. By technical meanings, are you referring to
usage that refers to an appointed position vs. a general meaning or to the
period in church history when these two terms take on distinctive meanings?

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