[B-Greek] Spiros Zodhiates

Timrake at aol.com Timrake at aol.com
Fri Jan 28 18:56:15 EST 2005


In a message dated 1/28/05 6:34:59 PM, nyland at tsn.cc writes:


> The papyri and the LXX are from different periods of history. The LXX came
> first, well and truly.
> 
> OT lexicography does not  include "the study of the LXX in its various
> strands" - there is OT lexicography, and then there is LXX lexicography -
> there are completely separate fields with separate specialists working in
> both fields.
> 
> Ann Nyland
> 

Not quite, Ann. The papyri come from a period stretching from the BC (BCE) 
period to AD (CE). This is seen, for example, in sections of the Apocrypha that 
were written in Greek and are extant through mss and papyri. They have a great 
bearing on some portions of the LXX.

Pr. TR



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