[B-Greek] Stigma and Digamma

James Ernest jdemail at charter.net
Thu Jul 8 10:02:53 EDT 2004


See the following, esp. the first, which mentions the Rev. text that started
this discussion.

http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/numerals.html#stigma

http://www.odeion.org/gematria/digamma.html

http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/nonattic.html

... and Google will lead you to other discussions, if you want to wade
through them. I'm not sure any of these answer all three of your questions.

I believe I have seen stigma (or as one of these sites would have it, stau
or stauros) used as a sigma-tau ligature in early printed editions of the
Greek NT, but I don't remember exactly where. I'm thinking it was an early
TR.

James

--------------------------------
James D. Ernest, Ph.D., Editor
Baker Academic
jernest at BakerAcademic.com
http://www.BakerAcademic.com
--------------------------------




> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dan 
> and/or Nancy Storm
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:31 AM
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] Stigma and Digamma
> 
> 
> I checked LSJ9, BDAG, and Smythe, and found that Greek 
> digamma and stigma are either the same letter, or came to 
> stand for the same sound. Until now, I had always thought 
> that they were different letters. At any rate, I know that 
> digamma is double-gamma, and corresponds to the Hebrew waw. 
> 
> My questions are: 
> 1) Are the differences diachronic or regional? That is, was 
> the stigma used in one region while digamma was used in 
> another. Or again, did one replace the other?
> 2) Was the sound of stigma the same as digamma, i.e. w?
> 3) Does the letter stigma have any connection to the Greek 
> word STIGMA?
> 
> D. Anthony Storm
> danstorm at comcast.net
> ---
> B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
> B-Greek mailing list
> B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org 
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek
> 




More information about the B-Greek mailing list