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> Dear listmembers
> The dean Raija Sollamo has kindly requested me to send the following 
> message to the list. If you would like to discuss with her, please 
> note that she is NOT a member of this list and that her e-mail 
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> Review of David L. Washburn's review of my book "Repetitions of the 
> Possessive Pronouns in the Septuagint". Septuagint and Cognate 
> Studies Series 40. Scholars Press 1955.
> 
> I was very happy to see a review of my book so soon and, of course, I 
> was very delighted with David L. Washburn's high evaluation of it. 
> Unfortunately, he has misunderstood one of my main results. David L. 
> Washburn writes in his review: "Sollamo shows ... that repetition of 
> possessive pronouns in lists of two or more nouns is not a Hebraism 
> at all; it is perfectly good Koine Greek. Authors such as Polybius, 
> the Ptolemaic Papyri, Pseudo-Aristeas, Philo and Josephus repeated 
> the pronouns more often than not." This is not correct. I have 
> demonstrated that there is only one case involving the repetition of 
> possessive pronouns by the Koine authors, namely Bell. Iud. 1,558. 
>My examples are not taken at random from Koine authors. I have presented 
> my text corpus on p. 7, and it has been scrutinized thoroughly. My 
> examples are all that appear in this text corpus. As a result I state 
> on page 17: "Firstly, the normal LXX practice of repeating the 
> possessive pronoun with coordinate items proves to be a Hebraism."

Yikes!   And I even had that sentence underlined.  My lapse here was
due to a statement on page 16 that was developed earlier in the
chapter: "...repetition of the possessive pronoun with coordinate
items is grammatically a perfectly correct mode of expression..." 
I'll make the necessary correction and re-issue the review.

As for the "random" comment, I believe Prof. Sollamo has 
misunderstood my use of the term.  When I said "examples taken more or less at 
random from Koine authors" I was referring to her selection of 
passages to study and to the selection of authors themselves.  The 
book gives no criteria for choosing these particular authors (other 
than the fact that they wrote in Koine) nor for the passages chosen 
from among these authors' writings, so I gathered that their 
selection was "more or less" random.  This in no way suggests that 
the passages themselves were not "scrutinized thoroughly."  They most 
certainly were.

A cc of this has been sent to Prof. Sollamo.  I thank her for the 
correction.

 
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur/home.html
"Just reach out, and He'll reach in..."

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