[B-Greek] Mark 12:38-40
Nikolaos Adamou
nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 31 23:43:29 EST 2008
I provide the text as
Robinson & Pierpont give it with an amendment of Antoniadis’ 1904 text with
respect to punctuation. It shows that Carl
is correct. But I would say, that rather
a generalizing rhetorical generalization it is a specification in absolute agreement
of Carl’s point with respect to Mk 12:28-34.
Although Greek did not
have punctuation, punctuation is important in two aspects.
First determines the
syntactical structure, and then allows the appropriate acoustical / musical reproduction
of the text.
Even now, that in Greek
we use punctuation, when we write Greek in one line and musical byzantine
notation on the line above it, the Greek text is plain, without accents and
punctuation, all these are given in the musical notation. This byzantine notation provides qualitative
characteristics of the voice, besides the quantitative about the musical notes.
Alypios, in his Introduction
to Music, ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ –EISAGOGI MOYSIKI – provides such
explanation for the Greek music. In his
work, Athanasios Siamakis – Alypiou Eisagogi Mousiki, text, translation into
modern Greek, introduction, notes and tables, 2nd ed. Prespes, 2003 (in Greek),
provided the equivalences between classical Greek and Byzantine music.
The sound is important,
and it is based on the syntactical form of the sentence.
Commas and exclamation
marks, semicolons and periods are important tools that allow one to understand and
thus translate a text.
So this is the case
here. Punctuation is not only important
in English but in Greek too!
“I
think rather it's "Beware of the scribes, who ... " I think it's a
rhetorically generalizing characterization of scribes, not a denunciation of
one and all. There may be exceptions to a generalizing characterization, and I
think that Mk 12:28-34 shows that there is at least one such exception. But I
would not fault the translations in this instance as miscasting what the Greek
text actually indicates.”
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
Καὶ
ἔλεγεν
αὐτοῖς
ἐν
τῇ
διδαχῇ
αὐτοῦ·
Βλέπετε ἀπὸ
τῶν
γραμματέων,
τῶν
θελόντων ἐν στολαῖς
περιπατεῖν,
καὶ
ἀσπασμοὺς
ἐν
ταῖς
ἀγοραῖς,
39 καὶ
πρωτοκαθεδρίας ἐν ταῖς
συναγωγαῖς,
καὶ
πρωτοκλισίας ἐν τοῖς
δείπνοις.
40 οἱ
κατεσθίοντες τὰς οἰκίας
τῶν
χηρῶν,
καὶ
προφάσει μακρὰ προσευχόμενοι! (R&P have a semicolon)
οὗτοι
λήψονται περισσότερον κρῖμα.
38 KAI ELEGEN AYTOIS EN TH DIDACH AUTOU,
BLEPETE APO TWN GRAMMATEWN,
TWN QELONTWN EN STOLAIS PERIPATEIN,
KAI ASPASMOUS EN TAIS AGORAIS,
39 KAI PRWTOKAQEDRIAS EN TAIS SUNAGWGAIS,
KAI PRWTOKLISIAS EN TOIS DEIPNOIS;
40 hOI KATESQIONTES TAS OIKIAS TWN CHRWN,
KAI PROFASEI MAKRA PROSEUCOMENOI!
hOUTOI LHMYONTAI PERISSOTERON KRIMA.
The New
Testament in the Original Greek
Byzantine Textform 2005
Compiled and Arranged by
Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont
http://koti.24.fi/jusalak/GreekNT/RP2005.htm
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