Casus pendens, non-verbal predicate and subject

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi Rob,

Why not have the Greek follow it? Isn't the point to demonstrate what translational Greek looks like?

You can search Classical Greek high and low, and you will never find a construction like these examples in any book originally written in Greek. This syntactical construct is quite foreign to all Indo-European languages. However, you can turn to any book and chapter in the LXX or GNT and find at examples like this.

And what do we know about the LXX? Well, first and foremost of course it is translational Greek. If we find similiar syntactical constructs in the GNT, and we do indeed, then it would logically follow that the GNT is translational Greek, as well.

It is this very imitation of Semitic syntactical structure that is a dead-giveaway that the GNT is a translation from a Semitic source....namely, the Aramaic NT.

I'll post another example tonight....