[B-Greek] Textual question (WAS: Rev 13:18)
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 6 22:32:42 EDT 2004
At 05:03 PM 7/6/2004 -0700, Dan and/or Nancy Storm wrote:
>I have read that in the text of Revelation 13:18, the oldest manuscripts do
>not spell out the number 666, but simply have three Greek letters: CXS. My
>UBS v.2 does not support this.
The UBS apparatus generally does not present information as to the
"accidentals" of variant readings, which I suppose includings
whether numbers are written using numerals or spelled out. The
NA27 apparatus, on the other hand, does list P47 051 and the
majority of MSS as supporting the use the numerals here. For
a more detailed listing of which MSS have which reading and
whether the number is spelled out, please see Hoskier, CONCERNING
THE TEXT OF THE APOCALYPSE (1929), vol. 2, p. 364.
Stephen Carlson
--
Stephen C. Carlson mailto:scarlson at mindspring.com
Weblog: http://www.mindspring.com/~scarlson/hypotyposeis/blogger.html
"Poetry speaks of aspirations, and songs chant the words." Shujing 2.35
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list