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A Quantitative Metrical Analysis of the Philippians Hymn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Barbara Eckman
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Short Studies
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New Testament Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , January 1980 , pp. 258 - 266
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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References

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2 Kyrios Jesus (1928).

3 ‘Zur Gedankenführung in den Paulischen Briefen’, Studia Paulina in honorem Johannis de Zwaan, Septuagenarii, Sevenster, J. N. and van Unnik, W. C., eds. (Haarlem: Erven F. Bonn, 1953), pp. 152–4.Google Scholar

4 Examples of scholars who have noted accentual patterns are: Dibelius, Martin, An die Thessalonicher I, II; an die Philipper (Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, vol. 11) (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1937), p. 73Google Scholar; Gamber, Klaus, ‘Der Christus-Hymnus im Philipperbrief in Liturgie-geschichtlicher Sicht’, Biblica 51 (3, 1970), 369‐76Google Scholar; and Lohmeyer, Ernst, Kyrios Jesus, pp. 4–13Google Scholar; also his commentary, Der Brief an die Philipper (Meyer Komm.) (1930), ad loc., cited in Martin, R. P., Carmen Christi, pp. 25–30Google Scholar. Martin, pp. 36–8, agrees in positing a Semitic origin but does not elaborate on patterns of accentual metre.

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7 It must be noted, however, even in the face of metrical evidence, that ùππχων adds to the euphony of the hymn, in that it introduces the ùπ-sound which recurs later in ùπήκοος (υ.8), περυψοω (υ. 9), and ὐπήρ (υ. 9).

8 See, for example, Sappho fragments 1, 2 and 16 in David Campbell, A., ed., Greek Lyric Poetry (Macmillan, 1967), pp. 4–3.Google Scholar

9 N. T. Graece ex ultima Tischendorfii recensione edidit Oscar de Gebhardt, Ed. stereot. minor, tertium emissa (Leipzig, 1895).Google Scholar

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