[B-Greek] Choice of transliterations for "David"?
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Wed Aug 27 22:56:56 EDT 2003
At 11:27 AM 8/28/03 +1000, Kevin Riley wrote:
>That disagrees with what Allen writes in "Vox Graecae" where he gives it as
>'w'. That also agrees with what I have read of Hebrew, where the change of
>'w' [waw] to 'v' [vav] is fairly late. At the time the Septuagint was
>written, I assume that DAUID was chosen as the pronunciation of Greek 'U'
>would have been the same as Hebrew 'w' [waw]. Even as both changed, the
>weight of tradition would have generally been against the change to DABID
Allen's work is mainly focused on classical pronunciate, though he
has some comments on later developments. Another work to consider
is Horrocks, who cites other research indicating earlier dates then
Allen for some of the changes, including EU -> /ev/.
As for DAUID/DABID, the great majority of the manuscripts we possess
do not use either spelling, but rather the nomen sacrum DAD with an
overbar. Therefore, it is difficult to trace changes in the ortho-
graphy of this name. Trobisch has proposed that modern editions of
the Greek N.T. should readopt the nomina sacra as an editorial
convention, but in the mean time we should try hard to remember that
in terms of accidentals (spelling, pronunciation) our printed editions
of the Greek text exhibit modern conventions that are hardly found
in the manuscripts.
Stephen Carlson
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