Variant spellings

From: akio itou (akioitojapan@root.or.jp)
Date: Thu Jul 11 1996 - 02:04:32 EDT


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>From: Mike Phillips <mphilli3@mail.tds.net>
>Subject: Variant spellings
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:13:26 -0700
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> I'm working in John 14 and have a few 'novice' questions, if anyone
>would care to stoop in an accomodating fashion <g>. In v. 15, to begin with, I
>find <greek>TAS ENTOLAS TAS EMAS</>, which I am rendering (for lack of a better
>idea) simply as 'my commandments,' yet the structure differs markedly from v.
>21, <greek>TAS ENTOLAS MOU</> which is so clearly 'my commandments,' that I
>wonder what measure of ignorance is preventing me from gathering the
>distinction (emphasis?). Is <greek> TAS EMAS</> something else (that I can't
>locate) other than a pronoun in acc. case agreeing with <greek>TAS ENTOLAS</>?
>Is it a bifurcate direct object (sorry, I don't know the technical term, but on
>a diagram you would have two parallel direct objects, the commandments and 'the
>ones of mine?' Ok, I have probably sufficiently addressed the points of my
>confusion here.
*>TAS EMAS<is an articel + a possesive adjective agreeing with the noun!
>
> How about spelling concerns: v. 27, <greek>DEILIATW</>. Where does
>the TAU come from? BAG has (p. 173) <greek>DELIAW</> and specifically cites
>this verse, but doesn't give the variant spelling. Archaic form? Different
>dialect?
*No! >DEILIATW< is the third person imperative form.

>Also v. 31 (and here I fear I am just plain foolish for risking another query,
>being fairly confident I have already exposed my ignorance suficiently) <greek>
>POIW</>. Why would a pres. act. ind. 1st sing. form vary from the lexical form
><greek>POIEW</>?
*>EW< is contracted in a normal spelling!
>
>------
>Mike Phillips
>Hebrew Union College - JIR
>disclaimer: a grad student in process
>
>A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging;
>it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day
>as does the air around us. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
>
Akio ITOU
Tokyo Christian University



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