I didn't see them

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Fri Jun 2 13:31:54 EDT 2000


At 05:28 PM 6/2/00 +0000, you wrote:
>
>For the first time I saw pictures of ancient New Testament Greek documents. 
>It didn't look like my UBS3 at all.
>
>I was then informed that first century Greek did not have punctuations or 
>accents.
>
>Is this correct?

yes it is correct.  the oldest mss are in all caps as well- with no space
between words.

>
>Is so, when did punctuations and accents first appear?

much later....  much!

>
>Also, did earlier Greek (Hellenistic and Homeric, etc) have punctuations and 
>accents?

no.

on these and other questions take a look at Metzgers "Text of the NT"


best,

Jim

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