Steven,
One other possibility to consider is the fact that Greek was a second language to the bulk of the NT authors. I catch myself in doing this, when writing in another language I tend to want to place my wording and order in an English style.
Just like someone to whom English is a second language tends to speak with their native sentence style and word order. Such as if someone grew up speaking a language with no native prepositions or prepositional phrasing, they have a tendency not to use those in English.
Its a theory I have. I need to gather some proof on it.
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