[B-Greek] Which spiritus on IEROUSALHM
D Jongkind
dj214 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Jun 18 05:40:53 EDT 2004
Dear list,
With excuses for the following technical question, but I need a bit of
inspiration.
Most modern editions print a spiritus asper on Jerusalem: hIEROUSALHM. Back
in the 19th century this was not common at all, Westcott and Hort explicitly
choosing for the spiritus lenis (Intro to NT in Grk, 331).
Does it make any difference how one sees the first syllable (taking s -IE-
as a diphtong or as two different syllables)?
I have found several places in a certain 4th century manuscript where the
word is broken off after the -I- and continued on the next line with
EROUSALHM. Also, I think I have examples of an itacistic error EIEROUSALHM
(but only in contractions), certainly one of a smilar proper noun IEREICW
(written as EIEREICW).
And if the first two letters do not make any difference, does it just come
down to editor's choice?
Regards,
Dirk Jongkind
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