Granville Sharp rule
What in the world is that???
never heard of it
http://www.equip.org/PDF/JAJ505.pdf
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Bowman/Sharp’s Rule – page 5 A. Defining Sharp’s Rule It should be noted that Sharp set forth not merely one rule but six governing the use of the definite article. Almost all of these rules have been accepted as valid except the first, which is the one that applies to Titus 2:13 and 2 Peter 1:1. In this study, therefore, we shall be concerned only with the first rule, which shall be called simply “Sharp’s rule.” Sharp’s rule has been variously stated by different grammarians and theologians, and this may help to explain the confusion which has surrounded this issue. The definition of Sharp’s rule that shall be defended here is as follows: In Greek, when two nouns of the same case are connected by kai (“and”), and the definite article appears before the first noun but not before the second, both nouns refer to the same person if the nouns are (1) personal, (2) singular, and (3) non-proper nouns, and if the nouns are (d) not normally paired semantically as denoting two persons. This definition is in most respects similar to the one given by Sharp himself, and even closer in wording to the definition offered recently the Lutheran scholar C. Kuehne.3 Neither Sharp nor Kuehne, however, included the final qualification (d) regarding semantically “paired” nouns. More recently still, the Greek grammarian Daniel B. Wallace, whose doctoral dissertation was devoted to Sharp’s rule, has defended a definition of the rule essentially identical to that of Kuehne.4 In his recent textbook Wallace argues that the rule covers all article-noun-kai-noun (TSKS) expressions with three qualifications: “(1) neither is impersonal; (2) neither is plural; (3) neither is a proper name.” In other words, “according to Sharp, the rule applied absolutely only with personal, singular, and non-proper nouns.”5 The definition I defend here includes these three qualifications and adds a fourth: if the nouns are normally semantically paired as denoting two persons, Sharp’s rule normally does not apply. One other possible qualification I would add – though it does not materially affect the argument of this paper – is that it is possible that Sharp’s rule might not always apply to a series of three or more nouns in this construction. At least one textbook does state that “the rule could also be applied to a series of three or more,”6 but even the way this statement is worded suggests that it would not necessarily apply to all such series. Still, with the other qualifications observed, there are no exceptions in the New Testament to the rule involving series of three or more nouns, 3C. Kuehne, “The Greek Article and the Doctrine of Christ's Deity,” Journal of Theology, Church of the Lutheran Confession, 13, 3 (Sept. 1973) 19-20, 26. Kuehne discussed the application of Sharp’s rule to the deity of Christ in six issues of this journal, in Vol. 13, Nos. 3 and 4, and Vol. 14, Nos. 1-4 (Sept. 1973 - Dec. 1974). 4Daniel B. Wallace, “The Article with Multiple Substantives Connected by Kai in the New Testament: Semantics and Significance,” Ph.D. diss. (Dallas Theological Seminary, 1995). 5Daniel B. Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 272. 6James A. Brooks and Carlton L. Winberg, Syntax of New Testament Greek (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1978), 70. "
https://cupdf.com/document/bowman-sharps-rule.html
https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/general-apologetics/granville-sharps-rule/
https://www.academia.edu/48841201/G...he_Deity_of_Jesus_Christ_in_the_New_Testament
https://www.theopedia.com/granville-sharps-rule
https://www.researchgate.net/public...HE_DEITY_OF_JESUS_CHRIST_IN_THE_NEW_TESTAMENT
https://digilander.libero.it/domingo7/SharpsRule.pdf
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