>To call this form "passive" in the first place is one of the absurd
>consequences of stuck-in-the-rut traditional notions of the voice of the
>Greek verb (which, could it REALLY become "active" would scream "bloody
>murder!"). We MUST NOT talk of passive voice...
(much snipped)
Perhaps this is true of Attic and other classical forms- but Koine is not
the same thing as classical, any more than High german is the same as Swiss
german.
Perhaps what is absurd is confusing the two and levelling them into one
(i.e., Koine and Attic).
>Carl W. Conrad
>
Jim
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Jim West
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net
or
jwest@theology.edu