alpha and omega

jwest at highland.net jwest at highland.net
Sat Sep 21 11:49:55 EDT 2002


>    When writing out the names of the Greek letters, is there a reason to
> capitalize them?  I'm thinking of the passage in the Infancy Gospel of
> Thomas where a teacher is instructing Jesus in the alphabet, from alpha to
> omega (or Alpha to Omega).
> 
> -- Bart Ehrman
>    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


seems to me one would only capitalize them if they were proper nouns.  

jim

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Quartz Hill School of Theology

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