Spending a Year Living Like Jesus

[Herb Stahlke]

The KJV is a pretty literal translation, especially in matters of
grammatical markers.  If David is right, could this reflect a
Classical Hebrew 'asher construction?

However, I lean towards the suggestion others have made that this is
an extension of the non-standard English conjunctive "which"
construction.

Herb

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, David Bowie <db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
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> From:    Victor <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
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>> I am having a hard time parsing the quote:
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>> http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=6573818
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>> [Ed Dobson] even had a couple of beers along the way. "I would often go
>> down to the bar, sit up at the counter, drink a beer and talk about God,
>> which Jesus was accused of being a glutton and a drunkard," he said.
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> This construction is all over the King James Version of the Bible. Seems
> reasonable that a Xian minister might have internalized it, even if it's
> not part of Dobson's native variety.
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> (BTW--at least as i parse it when it's in the KJV, the "which" in the
> above is not equivalent to "for which".)
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