From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 06:29:39 EDT
At 8:46 AM +0200 4/7/00, Warren Fulton wrote:
>To my surprise, almost a month now has gone by without an answer to Dr.
>Conrad's
>challenge from the thread "Poetic Paul":
>
>> Eric Weiss wrote re. Romans 2:9-10
>>
>> >Does Paul possibly use KATERGAZOMENOU with KAKON and
>> >ERGAZOMENWi with AGAQON - rather than KAT. or ERG. in both clauses -
>> >for "poetic" effect? I.e., KAT. with KAKON because they both begin with
>>"K",
>> >and ERG. with AGAQON because they both begin with vowels?
>
>> I guess this is an instance of assonance, and it would not surprise me that
>> when Paul is eloquent, as he often enough is, he will do this sort of
>>thing.
>> I suspect list-members will be offering some more examples of this sort of
>> thing.
>
>Last night I was reading 1Thess 4:13 with my pastor and came across:
>
>hINA MH LUPHSQE KAQWS KAI hOI LOIPOI hOI MH EXONTES ELPIDA
>
>My pastor, Dr. Bob Marsh, pointed out that there is no stop sign after
>LUPHSQE, that
>Paul is not saying "do not grieve period" but that MH LUPHSQE KAQWS KAI
>hOI LOIPOI
>forms a unit. MH EXONTES ELPIDA seems to balance the the negative
>imperative both
>with the MH and with the contrast LUPH<-->ELPIDA, a contrast brought to
>the fore by
>assonance.
>
>Now, in my "traditional" (church) manner of pronouncing Greek, the only
>difference
>between hOI LOIPOI and hH LUPH is one of accent. And in the verb form MH
>LUPHSQE even
>the stress aligns with hOI LOIPOI. Do I not hear Paul using assonance of
>L, P, and
>tearful long E to transfer LUPH to the LOIPOI and to contrast their sad
>state with
>E-LPI-DA? Or is my itacized ear playing tricks on me?
>
>Warren Fulton
>Inlingua School of Languages
>Vienna, Austria
Now there's an attractive and fascinating Wiener Bissel. I don't normally
pronounce Greek in the itacistic manner, but I'm aware of it and this
sounds pretty reasonable to--if it's not intentional, it's a very strange
coincidence!
--Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics/Washington University One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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