The Granville Sharp rule (Nestle1904GBI)¶

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Table of content ¶

1 - Introduction
- 1.1 - Why is this relevant?
- 1.2 - Translating into Text-Fabric queries
2 - Load Text-Fabric app and data
3 - Performing the queries
- 3.1 - TBD
- 3.2 - TBD
4 - Atribution and footnotes
5 - Required libraries

1 - Introduction ¶

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The Granville Sharp rule is formulated as:

"When the copulative καὶ connects two nouns of the same case,(...) if the article ὁ, or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle ..." ¹

1.1 - Why is this relevant? ¶

This rule is often refered to in order to prove the deity of Christ using textual and grammatical means (just as done by Granville Sharp). It is often applied to verses like Titus 2:13: ²

προσδεχόμενοι τὴν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα καὶ ἐπιφάνειαν τῆς δόξης τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,

1.2 - Translating it into a Text-Fabric query ¶

The following Text-Fabric query will identify a list of instances where the conditions referred to by the Granville Sharp rule are met. The results would assist in determining the exceptions and limitations of this rule.

This Text-Fabric query will produce:

Find all sequences of two substantive nouns in the same case.
Check if they share the same definite article.

It will return only instances where:

The two nouns are singular
The article is arthrous (occurs with the nouns)
The two nouns do not stand in a possessive relationship (one does not modify the other)
They do not constitute a proper name or geographical term (this can be done using Lauw-Nida classifications)
They are not separated by a modifier that would prevent them from referring to the same thing

2 - Load app and data ¶

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In [1]:

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

In [2]:

# Loading the Text-Fabric code
# Note: it is assumed Text-Fabric is installed in your environment
from tf.fabric import Fabric
from tf.app import use

In [3]:

# load the N1904 app and data
N1904 = use ("tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI", version="0.4", hoist=globals())

Locating corpus resources ...

The requested app is not available offline
	~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/app not found

Status: latest release online 0.4 versus None locally

downloading app, main data and requested additions ...

app: ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/app

The requested data is not available offline
	~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4 not found

Status: latest release online 0.4 versus None locally

downloading app, main data and requested additions ...

data: ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4

   |     0.23s T otype                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     1.97s T oslots               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.66s T word                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.57s T verse                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.58s T chapter              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.67s T book                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.58s T after                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |      |     0.05s C __levels__           from otype, oslots, otext
   |      |     1.48s C __order__            from otype, oslots, __levels__
   |      |     0.06s C __rank__             from otype, __order__
   |      |     2.36s C __levUp__            from otype, oslots, __rank__
   |      |     1.49s C __levDown__          from otype, __levUp__, __rank__
   |      |     0.06s C __characters__       from otext
   |      |     0.96s C __boundary__         from otype, oslots, __rank__
   |      |     0.04s C __sections__         from otype, oslots, otext, __levUp__, __levels__, book, chapter, verse
   |      |     0.24s C __structure__        from otype, oslots, otext, __rank__, __levUp__, book, chapter, verse
   |     0.55s T booknum              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.65s T bookshort            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.54s T case                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.55s T clause               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.07s T clauserule           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.02s T clausetype           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.47s T degree               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.58s T formaltag            from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.58s T functionaltag        from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.63s T gloss                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.54s T gn                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.62s T lemma                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.57s T lex_dom              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.59s T ln                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.50s T monad                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.50s T mood                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.72s T nodeID               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.65s T normalized           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.55s T nu                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.56s T number               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.49s T person               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.78s T phrase               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.30s T phrasefunction       from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.31s T phrasefunctionlong   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.31s T phrasetype           from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.51s T sentence             from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.58s T sp                   from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.57s T splong               from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.60s T strongs              from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.51s T subj_ref             from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.50s T tense                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.54s T type                 from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4
   |     0.50s T voice                from ~/text-fabric-data/github/tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/tf/0.4

Text-Fabric: Text-Fabric API 11.4.10, tonyjurg/Nestle1904GBI/app v3, Search Reference
Data: tonyjurg - Nestle1904GBI 0.4, Character table, Feature docs

Node types

Name	# of nodes	# slots/node	% coverage
book	27	5102.93	100
chapter	260	529.92	100
sentence	5720	24.09	100
verse	7943	17.35	100
clause	16124	8.54	100
phrase	72674	1.90	100
word	137779	1.00	100

Sets: no custom sets
Features:

Nestle 1904 (GBI nodes)

after

str

Character after the word (space or punctuation)

book

str

Book name (fully spelled out)

booknum

int

NT book number (Matthew=1, Mark=2, ..., Revelation=27)

bookshort

str

Book name (abbreviated)

case

str

Gramatical case (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative)

chapter

int

Chapter number inside book

clause

int

Clause number (counted per chapter)

clauserule

str

Clause rule

clausetype

str

Clause type

degree

str

Degree (e.g. Comparitative, Superlative)

formaltag

str

Formal tag (Sandborg-Petersen morphology)

functionaltag

str

gloss

str

English gloss

gn

str

Gramatical gender (Masculine, Feminine, Neuter)

lemma

str

Lexeme (lemma)

lex_dom

str

Lexical domain according to Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Greek, SDBG

ln

str

Lauw-Nida lexical classification

monad

int

Sequence number of the smallest meaningful unit of text (single word)

mood

str

Gramatical mood of the verb (passive, etc)

nodeID

str

Node ID (as in the XML source data)

normalized

str

Surface word stripped of punctations

nu

str

Gramatical number (Singular, Plural)

number

str

Gramatical number of the verb

otype

str

person

str

Gramatical person of the verb (first, second, third)

phrase

int

Phrase number (counted per chapter)

phrasefunction

str

Phrase function (abbreviated)

phrasefunctionlong

str

Phrase function (long description)

phrasetype

str

Phrase type information

sentence

int

Sentence number (counted per chapter)

sp

str

Speech Part (abbreviated)

splong

str

Speech Part (long description)

strongs

str

Strongs number

subj_ref

str

Subject reference (to nodeID in XML source data)

tense

str

Gramatical tense of the verb (e.g. Present, Aorist)

type

str

Gramatical type of noun or pronoun (e.g. Common, Personal)

verse

int

Verse number inside chapter

voice

str

Gramatical voice of the verb

word

str

Word as it appears in the text

oslots

none

Text-Fabric API: names N F E L T S C TF directly usable

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# The following will push the Text-Fabric stylesheet to this notebook (to facilitate proper display with notebook viewer)
N1904.dh(N1904.getCss())

3 - Performing the queries ¶

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3.1 - TBD ¶

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3.2 - TBD ¶

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4 - Attribution and footnotes ¶

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Footnotes:¶

¹ Sharp, Granville (1798). Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament, Containing Many New Proofs of the Divinity of Christ, from Passages Which Are Wrongly Translated in the Common English Version, Third Edition. (London: C. & W. Galabin, 1803), 3.

² For example in: Benjamin L. Merkle. Exegetical gems from Biblical Greek (Grand Rappids, MI: Baker Accademics, 2019), 39-43.

See also the extensive discussion on this subject in: Daniel B. Wallace, The Basics of New Testament Syntax, AER Edition January 2009 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 120-128.

5 - Required libraries ¶

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The scripts in this notebook require (beside text-fabric) the following Python libraries to be installed in the environment:

tabulate

You can install any missing library from within Jupyter Notebook using eitherpip or pip3.

The Granville Sharp rule (Nestle1904GBI)¶

Table of content ¶

1 - Introduction ¶

Back to TOC¶

1.1 - Why is this relevant? ¶

1.2 - Translating it into a Text-Fabric query ¶

2 - Load app and data ¶

Back to TOC¶

3 - Performing the queries ¶

Back to TOC¶

3.1 - TBD¶

3.2 - TBD¶

4 - Attribution and footnotes¶

Back to TOC¶

Footnotes:¶

5 - Required libraries ¶

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3.1 - TBD ¶

3.2 - TBD ¶

4 - Attribution and footnotes ¶

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