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- October 30th, 2012, 2:51 pm
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: Reversed genitives
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Re: Reversed genitives
Thanks for your help, Scott. Yes indeed, they're presumably adnominal. But adnominal genitives function diversely (as Smyth notes, 1295), and what puzzles me about these particular ones is that (a) they're apparently reversed by comparison with the other extant version of the same passages and (b) i...
- October 29th, 2012, 9:40 pm
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: Reversed genitives
- Replies: 7
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Reversed genitives
The Greek version of the Psalms of Solomon contains a number of genitives in the reverse of the order found in the other surviving version (Syriac)--and usually also in the reverse of the order that would seem intuitively logical to a native English speaker. For instance: 8:13 ἐν ἀφέδρω αἵματος ἐμία...
- October 29th, 2012, 9:05 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Evan Blackmore
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Evan Blackmore
Hello, I've been reading B-Greek fairly regularly for quite a while, although I've only just registered. Relevant CV: I began learning Greek in 1974. I also make mistakes in about a dozen other languages. Nowadays I'm mainly a maker of books (e.g. annotated editions with facing translation of standa...