[B-Greek] Romans 16:7
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Tue Dec 21 10:04:49 EST 2004
Dear Jim,
>See, John Dominic Crossan's new book, In Search of Paul, p. 115. I
>quote: "Finally, there is Junia, a case that would be funny to
>ridiculous if it were not so tragic. For the first twelve hundred
>years of Christianity, commentators had no trouble identifying her
>name as female....
But Dan Starcevich just wrote:
1. When accents were added to the Greek text in the ninth century the
circumflex was placed over the ultima indicating that our ninth century
brothers and sisters understood this to be a man's name.
HH: One of these two men are wrong if Crossan makes a sweeping claim,
which is what his words appear to do.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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