At 11:05 PM +0100 12/16/01, Wieland Willker wrote: >In the Byzantine text Mark 6:22 reads: >KAI EISELQOUSHS THS QUGATROS AUTHS THS HRWDIADOS > >The AUTHS THS sounds a bit strange to me. Is this "good" Greek? What >exactly does it mean >and what would be an adequate translation of it? To which Carl Conrad replied: << I would assume it's the intensive usage of AUTOS, which is in a predicative position to the noun with which it construes. The sense would be "the daughter of Herodias herself"...>> Maybe. But it still looks a bit strange to me. I would have expected the intensive pronoun to follow the noun it intensifies rather than precede it. But perhaps I'm being influenced too much by English usage. I wonder what a search of intensive pronouns which precede their nouns vs. ones which follow them would reveal? Alas, I don't have the software to do it. Metzger, in his Textual Commentary, apparently found the Greek a bit strange here too, for he suggests that "AUTHS [may] be taken as the redundant pronoun anticipating a noun (an Aramaism)." Yours in His grace, Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh@juno.com New Haven, CT USA Nibai kaurno hwaiteis gadriusando in airtha gaswiltith, silbo ainata aflifnith: ith jabai gaswiltith, manag akran bairith. --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu