[B-Greek] Luke 2:36 hANNA
Trevor Peterson
06PETERSON at cua.edu
Sun Nov 30 20:46:18 EST 2003
>===== Original Message From "Ruth Ellison" <ruthellison at optusnet.com.au>
=====
>I'm intrigued that this lady has a rough breathing, yet by English tradition
>her name is Anna. At what point did breathings begin to be marked in
>manuscripts?
I don't think they were marked at all in the uncial mss.
>Is the English tradition carried over from the Vulgate?
That appears to be the case--the Vulgate has Anna.
>What
>is the likeliest cause of the discrepancy?
>
><sudden heavenly ray of light penetrates skull, flips back to 1 Sam. 1...>
>(I don't have access to a printed LXX, but the text in Gramcord doesn't have
>breathings marked on names at all.)
This sort of shift is rather common. Semitic names normally start with a
rather wide range of guttural consonants, which are quite often lost medially
in Greek. Even though the rough breathing mark can preserve some vestige
initially, it was probably not pronounced in the era of the NT.
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
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