Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 So the number of optatives in today's reading got me curious. I remember being taught in Greek class that it wasn't worthy worrying about learning the conjugations because they were so rare. I decided I wanted to compare the frequency of the use of optatives. At first, I thought I could use Research to do so, but Research doesn't support grammatical tag searches. Instead, I set up a workspace with tabs for the various Greek texts I have (GNT, LXX, LXX parallels, and Apostolic Fathers). In the GNT tab, I set up the search [VERB optative] and then used the LInk command in the remaining tabs. The optative is far more common in the LXX than the GNT! I've attached a couple of screen shots of my finds: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abram K-J Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 This is great, Lorinda! Also, yikes! More than 100 in the LXX Psalms? We need that long-pined-for and long-awaited paradigm cheat sheet in Accordance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Yeah, it was a fun rabbit to chase. There are a number of Greek texts I don't have (pseudepigrapha, apocryphal NT, josephus, philo, etc.) I would be interesting to compare there, too. And a paradigm cheat sheet in Accordance would be great! I used to have a laminated, two-sided "cheat sheet" for both Greek and Hebrew that I bought at the Wartburg Seminary book store the summer before I left for "my" seminary. I audited a Hebrew class there, and thought they would be helpful. They were. Don't know where they are now. But I doubt the optative was on the Greek one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 The reason I want tables in User Tools is to develop my own cheat sheet in Accordance. I have the basic stuff. I don't have the optative though. That said Steven's has good tables with these and that is in Accordance. Oh and for fun. [verb optat] in Philo returns 1197 hits. Josephus 2176. Thx D 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Pyles Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Does that mean Josephus is the greater optimist? (optatist?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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