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I'm a near-beginner in all sorts of ancient Greek (self-taught), and I've been trying to identify the use of cases in this passage of Genesis. Could someone please correct my guesses and/or comment on why such-and-such a case is used? (Things like the "genitive of separation" are particularly puzzling to me.) Thanks!

1 Και συνετελέσθησαν ο ου?ανος και η γη (NOMINATIVE SING.) και πας ο κόσμος αυτων....
4 Αυτη ή βίβλος γενέσεως ου?ανου και γης (GENITIVE SING.), oτε εγένετο, η ημέ?α εποίησεν ο θεος τον ου?ανον και την γην (ACCUSATIVE SING.)...
5 και παν χλω?ον αγ?ου π?ο του γενέσθαι επι της γης (DATIVE SING.?) και παντα χό?τον αγ?ου π?ο του ανατειλαι ου γα? εβ?εξεν ο θεος επι την γην (ACCUSATIVE SING.?), και άνθ?ωπος ουκ ην ε?γάζεσθαι την γην (ACCUSATIVE SING.).
6 πηγη δε ανέβαινεν εκ της γης (GENITIVE SING.?) και επότιζεν παν το π?όσωπον της γης (GENITIVE SING.).
7 και επλασεν ο θεος τον άνθ?ωπον χουν απο της γης (GENITIVE SING.?) και ενεφ?σησεν εις το π?όσωπον αυτου πνοην ζωης, και εγένετο ο άνθ?ωπος εις ψυχην ζωσαν.

(The text is from the second chapter of Genesis according to the Septuagint text on http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/physis/s ... esis/2.asp. I posted this last month on the little-used Ancient Greek tutorial site http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/course/view.php?id=11 but didn't get any replies.)

Thanks for your help! That clears a lot of things up. (Compared to Sanskrit, which I'm more familiar with, it looks like the Genitive must have taken over the job of the missing Locative and Ablative cases.)

modus.irrealis wrote:I'm probably wrong then about the frequency of the two cases, but the gen. was used in Attic Greek for place. There are a number of examples in Liddell & Scott.

yes, you're right, there are some instances of epi + gen. for place listed in the LSJ, most of them taken from Xenophon.

but I think epi + dat. was a far more common way for expressing location in Attic.