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  • From: Peter Head <pmh15 AT cam.ac.uk>
  • To: Kata Markon <gmark AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [GMark] Language and Style of Mark
  • Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:07:53 +0100

Thanks for the responses on this question. They were all helpful (although I'm holding back on Danove and Reiser - it is for a second year Greek class!)

The outline of my lecture is as follows. Any major omissions?


The Language and Style of the Greek of Mark's Gospel

1. Introduction

2. Vocabulary
a) Total vocabulary of 1,345 different words (1,270 + 75 proper names)

b) Common vocabulary:
a) Mark uses 31 words more than fifty times (Morgenthaler, 167)


c) Characteristic vocabulary (selected from Hawkins, Horae Synopticae, 12-13)


d) Absent vocabulary
Some terms are relatively absent from Mark:




3. Grammar
a) Verbal Forms in Mark: (from Decker, Temporal Deixis, 92)

b) Historic Present: 151 occurences (Hawkins, Horae Synopticae, 144-148: list with synoptic parallels): 71 are forms of le/gw.

c) Impersonal Plural (Turner/Elliott, Language, 4-12; cf. Pryke, Style, 107-115)
plural verb with no expressed subject:
d) Genitive absolute: 29 occurences (Pryke: 24/29 are redactional): open pericope with linking phrase.
e) a1rxomai as auxiliary verb (generally with infinitive): 33 times [Turner-Elliott, Language, 93-97; Pryke, Style, 79-87]: often simplified in Matthew (Head, Christology, 72).


4. Loan-words
a) Latin:
b) Aramaic words/phrases:
c) Aramaic names:

5. Other Features
i) Parenthetical Comments:


ii) Diminutives:


iii) Duality (Neirynck)

iv) Semitic Interference in Marcan Syntax (Maloney)



6. Concluding Reflections

i) Markan Style and redaction of pre-Markan sources

ii) Markan Style and the Synoptic Problem

iii) Markan Style and the Textual Criticism of Mark

iv) Markan Style and Markan communication strategy

v) Markan Style and the Markan Setting



7. Recent Research

a) R.J. Decker, Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark in Light of Verbal Aspect (2001)

b) P. Danove, Linguistics and Exegesis in the Gospel of Mark: Applications of a Case Frame Analysis and Lexicon (2002)


Pete



At 03:37 PM 9/5/05, you wrote:
What would people recommend on the subject of the language and style of
Mark's Greek?
I'm looking at Hawkins, Horae Synopticae; N. Turner, Style (Moulton's
Grammar); C.H. Turner's 'Notes on Marcan Usage' and the standard
commentaries. But there must be some more recent monographs out there.

Cheers

Peter



Peter M. Head, PhD
Sir Kirby Laing Senior Lecturer in New Testament
Tyndale House
36 Selwyn Gardens Phone: (UK) 01223
566607
Cambridge, CB3 9BA Fax: (UK) 01223 566608
http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/staff/Head/Staff.htm

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