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Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 746
edited November 21 in English Forum

What are some Greek textual abnormalities in the Gospel of John?

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  • MJ. Smith
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    Look in your technical commentaries and journals.

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    What are some Greek textual abnormalities in the Gospel of John?

    Screen shot shows New Testament Text and Translation Commentary & A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament have a number of textual comments about the Gospel of John.

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  • GregW
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    If you’ve got a base package you should have Metzger’s Textual Commentary (and the Lexham one). Go to John in there and it’ll explain why they made the textual decisions they did. 

  • Stephen Miller
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    Check out the following ....

    1. The Lexham Textual Notes on the Bible is simple, and deals with verses in NT order.

    2. Philip Comfort's NEW TESTAMENT TEXT AND TRANSLATION COMMENTARY is well set out.

    3. His ENCOUNTERING NT MSS has a couple of very informative chapters of on several passages in FG.

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  • David Thomas
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    Greek textual abnormalities

    suggestion: instead of looking for "abnormalities" (which some would see as negative) consider phrasing this as "evidences of the Johannine voice". One of your other posts mentions "Biblical Theology" Instead of looking at John's voice as "abnormal" You may wish to identify style and vocabulary that sets John apart from the other Human Evangelists and NT Authors.

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  • DMB
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    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1194259#Comment_1194259

    Greek textual abnormalities

    suggestion: instead of looking for "abnormalities" (which some would see as negative) 

    Know you're trying to make things nice, but if he hopes to find it (Johannine style) it'd be versus some other standard. As in:

    https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/johannine-anomalies-and-the-synoptics 

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  • MJ. Smith
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    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1194259#Comment_1194259

    suggestion: instead of looking for "abnormalities" (which some would see as negative) consider phrasing this as "evidences of the Johannine voice".

    Ah, I see we took the question differently. I see "grammar" as solely a descriptive framework scholars impose on a language - in which case, "abnormalities" are simply the forms used that the framework does not explain - often, idioms, dialectal variations, historical remnants ... I didn't take the question to be one of stylistics. I suspect you may be closer to what the OP intended. 

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