Re: Mounce: hO LOGOS HN QEOS

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 08:54:34 EST


At 7:42 AM -0600 1/2/98, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>At 07:18 AM 1/2/98 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>>At 6:25 AM -0600 1/2/98, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
>>>KAI hO LOGOS HN QEOS = "and the Word was a God"
>>>KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS = "and the Word was God"
>
>>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..
>
>I assume the rhetorical difference is basically a matter of emphasis, with
>greater emphasis on the noun that occurs first, eh?

Yes, and in Classical Attic, at least, I think that's the reason why the
predicate word tends to be first.

Carl W. Conrad
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