Lucas 1

Lucas 1

Lenski on anatassomai - The verb is very rare, being found only twice in the middle voice in the literature of the three centuries after Christ, yet its meaning is quite clear. Irenaeus uses it when he describes how, after the burning of the books that had been written by Moses and the prophets, Ezra, by means only of the Holy Spirit, reproduced them perfectly (Zahn). Robertson refers only to the other example given by M.-M., Vocabulary, in Plutarch’s anecdote about the elephant, who was so obstreperous and difficult to train and yet of his own accord rehearsed his tricks in the moonlight. Account (1335)(diegesis from diegeomai = to set out in detail from diá = through or an intensifier + hegeomai = to lead) is a narrative or message that tells the details of an act or course of events in an orderly sequence. BDAG says diegesis is "an orderly description of facts, events, actions, or words." It is used of a historical report in classic Greek. It is a discourse consisting of an orderly exposition or narration. It indicates a narration of a verified and well-witnessed report. This is the only NT use of diegesis. There are 2 uses in the non-apocryphal Septuagint - Judges 5:14, Hab 2:6. NET Note explains that "This is sometimes translated "narrative," but the term itself can refer to an oral or written account. It is the verb "undertaken" (epicheireo) which suggests a written account, since it literally is "to set one's hand" to something.". "Narrative" is too specific, denoting a particular genre of work for the accounts that existed in the earlier tradition. Not all of that material would have been narrative.