Re: Mounce: hO LOGOS HN QEOS

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 08:18:56 EST


At 6:25 AM -0600 1/2/98, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>I just noticed Mounce's notes on John 1:1c in his "Basics of Biblical
>Greek." He makes the claim that the word order changes the meaning in this
>way:
>
>KAI hO LOGOS HN QEOS = "and the Word was a God"
>KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS = "and the Word was God"
>
>My head is still swimming from reading too many pages on the article too
>quickly...but is there really a difference in definiteness due to word order?

I'm from Missouri; you're going to have to show me! In sum, I don't believe
there's a difference due to word order as such. I think that the difference
in word order is rhetorical..

Carl W. Conrad
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