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Varner states in his EEC James commentary, "θεοῦ καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοῦλος, “a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” The fronting of the genitive prior to its head noun, which is curiously placed at the end of the self-designation, is striking. James only departs from the default order of “head noun plus genitive” two other times in the letter (1:17: τροπῆς ἀποσκίασμα; 3:3: τῶν ἴππων τοὺς χαλινοὺς)."

I've been trying to figure out how to best search this (syntax or morph) but I'm not getting the desired results. If anyone could help to better explain how to do a search for finding this that would be great.

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Dave Hooton

I don't really understand the proposition when he translates “a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” instead of “of God and the Lord Jesus Christ a slave.”; in which case the genitive "of God..." comes before the head noun "slave".

Cascadia Syntax Graphs has a designation for "head". So here is a query for genitive before "head" noun in a phrase

The result includes the two "exceptions", but "slave" is the head noun in 1:1.

Change it slightly (top query below):-

Now it produces 3:3 only. So if I change the order (the query following OR) the results include James 1:1 but the head noun is "James". So i can come up with a proposition that is the apparent opposite of the EEC one.

Ryan Robinson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/696210#Comment_696210

I did this search and I only got 1:17 back.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/696243#Comment_696243

The dotted . . . . > connectors come from a right click of the destination term - "Matching skips levels"

Ryan Robinson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/696316#Comment_696316

Didn't catch that the first time. This worked. I'm slowly but surely learning syntax searching.

What made checking "Matching skips levels" so important for this to catch all of them?

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/696356#Comment_696356

What made checking "Matching skips levels" so important for this to catch all of them?

There could be a number of intervening phrases before the genitive Word, so it avoids having to be specific; which would complicate the query and restrict the results.