The Granville-Sharp Rule Meets Syntactical Searching
Most students of New Testament Greek are familiar with the Granville-Sharp rule, as it always comes up in a discussion of how the Greek New Testament casts Jesus as God in certain passages–most specifically John 1:1-3. Granville-Sharp can be taken to a whole new level with today’s “above the word level” searching in a syntactically-tagged database. Read all about it here (with illustrations and search download files).
MSH @ May 11, 2008
Michael,
This was a good post, although I was disappointed that the searches turned up false hits, and were blind to actual occurences of GS constructions.
What’s your take on it?
My take is that it’s far more precise than doing it with a morph database, though not perfect. Rick’s query succeeded in getting Wallace’s examples in one shot, which is remarkable. It’s a good example of how searches can be re-thought in light of a syntax database.