From: Rick Duggin (rduggin@juno.com)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 12:21:42 EST
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<DIV>Many thanks to Dennis Hukel, Jeff Smelser, Iver Larsen, and </DIV>
<DIV>Carl Conrad for their responses (some on list, some off ) to </DIV>
<DIV>my question about emphasis. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>May I ask a corollary before returning to my usual lurking</DIV>
<DIV>mode?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Concerning emphasis and word order, A.T.Robertson says:</DIV>
<DIV>"This is one of the ruling ideas in the order of words.
This</DIV>
<DIV>emphasis may be at the end as well as at the beginning of </DIV>
<DIV>the sentence, or even in the middle in case of antithesis.
</DIV>
<DIV>The emphasis consists in removing a word from its usual position </DIV>
<DIV>to an unusual one." He provides several
illustrations.</DIV>
<DIV>(Grammar, 147f.) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>ATR goes on to explain that emphasis alone does not explain </DIV>
<DIV>every unusual order of words in a Greek sentence (419,420), </DIV>
<DIV>and, as Carl pointed out, ATR mentions the large amount of </DIV>
<DIV>personal liberty that was exercised in the trajection of words.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If I am not misunderstanding ATR, he differs rather </DIV>
<DIV><EM>emphatically</EM> (pardon the pun) with modern scholarship on</DIV>
<DIV>this issue. Of course, I readily acknowledge that ATR
may</DIV>
<DIV>be the one in error, but I'm wondering: was ATR's position
</DIV>
<DIV>once the generally accepted position? In any case, what
</DIV>
<DIV>brought about the change of view? And how can the
interested</DIV>
<DIV>observer who is NOT a Greek scholar know which view is</DIV>
<DIV>right? Is it a matter of standing on the shoulders of
giants</DIV>
<DIV>and getting a better view?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Please understand that I'm not quibbling w. anyone's answer </DIV>
<DIV>to my question; I suspect that Dennis Hukel is correct in saying</DIV>
<DIV>that context must determine emphasis. I don't lose any
sleep</DIV>
<DIV>over the disagreement between scholars, but I'm curious about </DIV>
<DIV>this rather common problem where one scholar dogmatically
</DIV>
<DIV>affirms a view that another scholar denies.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks again for your help.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Rick Duggin</DIV>
<DIV>Murfreesboro, TN</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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