[B-Greek] Three Greek Expressions

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Sun Jun 19 20:49:41 EDT 2005


I'm forwarding this message from, Mile Grondin, the owner of the Gospel
of Thomas List.  He is not a B-Greek subscriber.  I'll post any replies
to him that you may have.

Jeffrey Gibson

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Here's a question (hopefully not too naive) for the Greek experts on 
the list. As you may or may not know, the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, 
like other Coptic texts, employs a number of Greek loan-words. As it 
turns out - and contrary to expectation - the number of occurrences 
of such words in the ms may be significant. However, I can't quite 
pin this down, because there's three expressions used in CGTh that I 
don't know whether to count as single words or double-word 
expressions. Separated as two words, the expressions in question are 
as follows:

1. DIA TOUTO (therefore)
2. EI MHTI (unless)
3. OUX hOTI (because)

Whether the English translations given are correct is of interest, 
but not of primary importance. What is of primary importance is 
whether any of these expressions might have been considered a single 
word by an Egyptian Coptic-Greek speaker. 

Thanks,
Mike Grondin



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