HMEIN
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jan 12 07:26:57 EST 2003
At 8:11 PM -0500 1/11/03, Bill Barton wrote:
>I notice in Sinaiticus the scribe writes HMEIN instead of HMIN in Luke 1:1
>and Luke 1:2 (Bartsch, "Codex Bezae versus Codex Sinaiticus," 1984)
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>Should this be construed as a misspelling or as an alternate spelling?
This is indeed a matter of orthography: pronunciation of HMEIN and HMIN was
identical and the substitution of EI or I for one another is not uncommon.
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