From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 08:07:50 EST
At 11:11 PM -0600 11/30/01, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
>On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 06:50 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote :
> [regarding understanding articular nouns in Mt 18:17, Lk 10:7, and Jn 2:25
> as generic and Englishing them as "a(n) X" rather than "the X"]
>
>I fully concur with your assessment of the above texts. However, I do
>not think they supply a comparable semantic situation to Luke 18.13,
>i.e., an articular nominal most probably (IMO) in apposition to a first
>person personal pronoun. All the above cases refer to generic, third
>party entities, no one person in particular. On the other hand, in Luke
>18.13 the tax collector is referring to himself specifically and
>personally. And since TWi hAMARTWLWi is in apposition (IMO) to MOI, this
>also seems to concretize and personalize TWi hAMARTWLWi, rather than
>describe a generic category of which the tax collector is an example.
>Two singular substantives in apposition usually refer to the same person
>or thing, not the person or thing and the generic class to which the
>person or thing belongs. The tax collector is referring to himself in
>particular, a specific, identifiable individual. This, I believe,
>creates a different situation altogether from that of the other
>passages. In addition, since the Pharisee compares himself *favorably*
>to the tax collector, it seems in context that, in a wonderful example
>of irony, it would not be unusual for Jesus to portray the tax collector
>as comparing himself *unfavorably* to the Pharisee ("me, the sinner
>[compared to *him*, the righteous man"), though the tax collector went
>home justified and the Pharisee (unbeknown to the tax collector) not.
I think I ought to confess publicly here that I have been won over by the
argument at last with regard to TWi hAMARTWLWi, and I am grateful to Steven
in particular for persistence in clarifying the terms of what is at stake
here.
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Carl W. Conrad
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