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Semitisms in Luke's Greek : a descriptive analysis of lexical and syntactical domains of Semitic language influence in Luke's Gospel / Albert Hogeterp, Adelbert Denaux.

Author

Hogeterp, Albert L. A. [Browse]

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Book

Language

English

Published/Created

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]
©2018

Description

xxv, 656 pages ; 24 cm.

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Denaux, Adelbert, 1938- [Browse]

Series

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 401. [More in this series]
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604 ; 401 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Gospel of Luke has long been known for its variation between good, educated Greek and Semitic influences. In the last century, five theories have attempted to explain the Semitic influence: Semitic sources; imitation of the Greek Bible; the Greek of the ancient synagogue; literary code-switching between standard Greek and semitized Greek; and the social background of bilingualism. Albert Hogeterp and Adelbert Denaux revisit Luke's Greek and evaluate which alleged Semitisms of vocabulary and syntax are tenable in light of comparative investigation across corpora of Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, literary as well as documentary, texts. They contend that Semitisms in Luke's Greek are only fully understood in light of a complementarity of linguistic backgrounds, and evaluate them in diachronic respect of Synoptic comparison and in synchronic respect of their place in Luke's narrative style and communicative strategy. -- From publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-545) and indexes.

Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Reference works and commentaries on Luke
Periodicals and serials
Other reference works
List of tables
History of scholarship on the Greek of the New Testament and its semitisms
Introduction
The study of the Greek New Testament and semitisms
Semitisms in the New Testament and semitic evidence
New Testament Greek and other Greek evidence
Evaluation and prospect
Theories about Luke's semitisms and approach
Semitic sources
Luke and his sources
Debate about alleged semitic sources in Luke
Alleged semitic sources : outdated options and theoretical possibilities
Luke's use of Mark
Luke's use of Q
Luke's special materials (L)
Comparative domains : LXX Greek, the scrolls, and Josephus
The translation Greek of the Septuagint
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Semitic Sources of Greek texts
Flavius Josephus, Semitic Milieus and sources
The use of Septuagintal Greek
New Testament Greek and LXX Greek
Luke's use of Septuagintal Greek
Luke's use of Greek scriptures
Interference of LXX Greek
Septuagintal vocabulary in Luke's Greek
LXX grammar and syntax in Luke's Greek
LXX Greek and the style of Luke's Greek
Luke's Greek and settings of Jewish religious worship
Code-switching in Luke's literary style
Bilingualism
Luke's Greek and the question of bilingualism
Arguments against Lucan bilingualism
Arguments for Lucan bilingualism
Bilingualism and its conceptualization
The phenomenon of bilingualism
Types of bilingualism
Diglossia and polyglossia
Syro-Palestinian contexts of bilingualism
Approach : format for discussion of semitisms in Luke
Tools for study and procedures of citation
Rubrics of discussion
Order of discussion
Methodological considerations
On terminology and linguistic factors
Cross-linguistic approach
Semitisms in Luke's vocabulary
Nouns
... signifying ... '(some)one'
..., liquid measure, 'bath'
..., Gehenna
..., altar
..., dry measure, 'cor'
..., mammon
..., Passover (Lk 2,41, 22,1), passover lamb (Lk 22,7.11.15), Passover meal (Lk 22,8.13)
..., sabbath (Lk 4,16.31; 6,1.2.5.6.7.9; 13,10.14-16; 14,1.3.5; 23,54.56), week (Lk 18,12; 24,1)
..., Satan
..., dry measure, 'seah'
... in a reflexive sense, signifying 'self'
Noun word groups
..., people of goodwill
..., born of women
... as noun of relationship
General discussion of analogical formations
General bibliography
General comments
General observations on relative frequency and semantic range
Discussion of lemmas in Luke's Greek
..., son of peace
..., the sons of this age(/world)
..., the Son of man
... lit. 'the sons of the wedding hall', the bridegroom's attendants
..., son(s) of the most high (God)
..., the sons of light
..., being sons of the resurrection
The adjectival genitive
Verbs
... with genitive, in a judicial context, 'rise up with'
..., to give tithes/a tenth
... with dative, 'to acknowledge'
... with dative, to walk in, denoting 'to live, abide by'
..., 'take offense at'
..., to be afraid of, fear, in Luke 12,4
Idiomatic Expressions
...
... as greeting
..., Luke 6,22
... in an adversative sense
Substantive ... in phrases
Some temporal expressions
..., 'in those days'
... + proper name
..., 'after these things'
Figurae etymologicae : verbs combined with their nominal equivalents
Stylistic usages
Poetic diction
...'from generation to generation'(Lk 1,50)
..., 'has raised up a horn of salvation'(Lk 1,69)
..., 'all the days of our life' (Lk 1,75b)
..., 'the birds of the sky' (Lk8,5; 9,58; 13,19; Acts 10,12; 11,6)
..., perform mercy to someone (Lk 1,72; 10,37)
..., 'show strength (with his arm)' (Lk 1,51)
..., 'compassionate mercy' (Lk 1,78a)
..., 'and behold'
Alleged semitisms of vocabulary not maintained
... as conjunction signifying 'immediately, then'
... plus dative, denoting 'appeared to'
... with infinitive, denoting 'to be able (to)'
Some alleged septuagintisms
Summary
Biblical language
Aramaisms
Semitisms of mixed backgrounds
Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
Hebrew, Aramaic
Exclusive parallels from late antique semitic sources
Semitisms in Luke's syntax
... as a particle that indicates time
Syntax of prepositions
..., preposition with genitive, 'before, in the presence of'
... with genitive, 'upon the face of'
... with genitive, 'in the presence, sight of'
... with genitive, before, ahead of
Syntax of pronouns
Resumptive pronoun following a relative pronoun
Unstressed ... ...
The interrogative pronoun ... used as Adverb denoting 'how'
The positive denoting a comparative or superlative degree
Uses of the cardinal numeral ...
Distributive ... .. ...
... used as an ordinal numeral in a temporal expression
Verbal syntax
Sentence constructions starting with ...
General introduction
literary ... Greek
documentary ... Greek
... + temporal expression + finite verb
The introductory formula ...
Temporal circumstances
The main clause (the apodosis)
... + temporal expression + ... + finite verb
Temporal sub-clauses introduced by ... with infinitive
The main clause
... (+ temporal expression) + infinitive
Uses of the articular infinitive
... + Infinitive
... + Infinitive introducing a temporal clause
Inchoative use of the participle before a finite main verb
Adverbial use of ...
The periphrastic imperfect : ... with present participle
Lack of the copula ...
Third person plural active verbs denoting a passive voice
Parataxis
Word order
Alleged semitisms of syntax not maintained
Use of pronouns
Negation with the indefinite pronoun ...
... as demonstrative pronoun
The indefinite use of ... in phrases starting with ...
The imperatival use of the future tense
Use of particles
... as particle introducing a question in direct speech
... = ... stemming from Aramaic ...
Pleonastic or inchoative use of certain types of verbs
... as auxiliary verb
-- Summary
Biblical hebraisms from LXX Greek
Hebraistic language from biblical tradition
Aramaic influences
Evaluation and conclusions
Semitisms in Luke revisited
Diachronie viewpoint
Triple tradition passages
Retained semitisms
Marcan semitisms retained by both Luke and Matthew
Marcan semitisms retained by Luke only
Omitted semitisms in parallel Lucan and Matthean verses
Marcan semitisms omitted by both Luke and Matthew
Marcan semitisms omitted by Luke only
Additional semitisms
Minor agreements of Matthew and Luke against Mark
Semitisms in Luke only
Semitisms in Matthew only
Double tradition passages
Semitisms, Matthew = Luke
Semitisms in Matthew not in Luke
Semitisms in Luke not in Matthew
Luke's Special materials
Vocabulary
Syntax
Evaluative comments
Synchronic viewpoint
Luke's semitisms as part of his narrative style
The rhetorical function of Luke's semitisms
Linguistic factors behind Luke's semitisms
Middle Aramaic
Hebrew of the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods
Qumran Hebrew
Rabbinic Hebrew
Toward a reformulated Hypothesis on Luke's semitisms
Linguistic hypotheses revisited
Sources
Imitation of biblical language
The Greek of the ancient synagogue
Code-switching
A reformulated hypothesis
Terminology
Complementarity of linguistic backgrounds
Concluding remarks and suggestions for further research
Bibliography
Literature
Index of sources
Biblical literature
Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha
Qumran literature
Philo and Josephus
Rabbinic literature
Other semitic texts
Graeco-Roman literature
Greek documentary texts
Early Christian authors and wrtings
Index of semitisms
Index of modern authors
Index of subjects.

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9783161553363 ((hd.bd.))
3161553365 ((hd.bd.))

OCLC

1035566084

International Article Number

9783161553363

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