[GMark] Grammar Enquiry

Ted Blakley jtedblakley at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 04:59:37 EDT 2006


Dear John,
     As Jeffrey suggested this is a text critical question. Looking at
Swanson I see that for Mark 1:16-17, there are three different spellings for
word "fishers." I say spellings because these are all the same grammatical
form, masc. nom. plural.

1.  hALEEIS
2.  hALEIEIS
3.  hALIEIS

hALEEIS (1) is the reading found in Westcott-Hort; though Tishendorf and the
UBS4/NA27 regard hALIEIS (3) as being original. Of course, these variations
are not differences in the "text" but differences in orthographic
representation of the text.

In Liddell-Scott, the lexical entry for the masc. nom. sing. is hALIEUS with
a note that it was later written as hALEEUS. Thus we have two different
stems hALI- and hALE- which would explain 1 and 3. Without having done any
research, my impression is that (2) is a scribal error and so does not
reflect an additional spelling in currency. After all, (2) occurs in just
two manuscripts (D, L*) and a corrector came along in L and changed it from
hALEIEIS (2) to hALEEIS (3).

Sincerely,
Ted Blakley


On 10/07/06, John Gale <johngale at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
>
> DearScholsrs,
>
> Can you advise me on this query please?
>
> Mark1.16 & 17
>
> alieiß  alieuß (alaß)  NOUN masculine plural nominative  fisherman
>
> One translation renders it as aleeiß
>
> Is there grammatical or linguistic support for this?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Gale
>
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