[B-Greek] Greek word in the margin of D

Yancy Smith Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Thu Dec 8 13:19:38 EST 2005


In a message dated 12/8/05 12:01:25 PM, wfwarren at aol.com writes:


> This was passed along to me by a student, but upon looking myself  
> at our facsimile of Bezae, the reading is as follows:
> ANNAG NOSMA, with the word often repeated but with these two parts  
> normally/always being separated on different lines.  Once the  
> spelling is ANNAS NOSMA, but the others that I saw are ANNAG  
> NOSMA.  Now I wonder if the actual division was ANNA GNOSMA, such  
> as "to mark up/above).  Any ideas on this one?

Now I am going to flip flop. The word is clearly ANAGNWSMA, only  
misspelled, the soft "g" sound would explain the various forms of the  
word either lacking G or substituting S. To a Latin speaker or  
someone who was a Greek speaker but barely literate this substitution  
would seem natural. Of course the word means "reading." See s.v.  
"ANAGNWSMA" in Lampe (p. 99), where he gives the defs. "reading"  
"reading publicly delivered" or "a passage for reading," etc.

Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University






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