From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Thu Jan 22 1998 - 13:00:42 EST
At 03:32 PM 1/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Luke 1:57,
>TH DE ELISABET PLHSQH (O CRONOS TOU TEKEIN AUTHN
>to construe AUTHN. It looks like it should go with TOU TEKEIN as the
>accusative subject of the infinitive,
It does.
> but that yields a sense like
>And the time was fulfilled for Elizateh she gave birth and gave birth to a
>son. Since TEKEIN, and GENNAW in the following clause both mean roughly
>the same thing
Actually Tekein means to bear while gennaw means to give birth; thus the
sense is "when the time was right, Elisabeth gave birth to her son..." etc.
This piling up of verbs is a typical semitic style (finite verb +
infinitive; many example throughout the HB) - and is also typical of Luke
(who, so far as I can tell, intentionally imitates the style of the LXX).
>I think, it might make more sense to construe AUTHS with
>CRONOS,
>And for Elizabeth, her time was fulfilled to give birth, and she gave
>birth to a son.
>
You have not really removed the piling up of the verbs here, only moved them
around while continuing to translate both tekein and gennaw with the english
"give birth".
>Anytone have suggestions on the syntactical relations here? Please
>respond to me directly as I am not a list member. Thanks.
>
Youre not? Why not?
>
>
>Grace and Peace,
>
>
>Ken Litwak
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
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Quartz Hill School of Theology
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