[B-Greek] A curiousity-how to read when against the grain?

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 06:17:11 EST 2006


A curiousity has arisen for me in the last spate of discussions on
KOINH PROFORA --

Exactly what do people do and how do people read
when they encounter a text like Matthew 27:46
HLEI HLEI LAMA SABAXQANEI? (e.g. 'Theta' and Caesarean)

How would they read that if it were printed in their Greek NT?

What would happen if they thought that that is how Matthew spelled it?
This question ought to be pretty interesting on this list.

Finally, (partially a TC question, but more language oriented than TC)
Why has Westcott and Hort's SABAXQANEI been changed to SABAXQANI
in NestleAland?
Is there any ground for arguing that NA are iimposing 'their language'
over manuscripts on this point? How do people feel about it, if so?

[[the first part of WH's Mt27:46 "ELWI ELWI" is based on a harmonistic
reading of the Alexandrian texts with Mark. NA and UBS follow the more
difficult,
different texts HLEI HLEI//HLI HLI, though again, NA and UBS do not follow the
old uncials that read HLEI. The issue for this list is not ELWI versus HLEI,
but how do people read HLEI and how do they feel about it possibly being
changed into HLI in their printed texts? Discussion can be limited to
SABAXQANEI above, since that is the same issue and will not lead to
misunderstandings or side issues about textual matters.]]

Hopefully, the above is clear enough to get answers to the curiousity.
How do people read WH's SABAXQANEI? How do they deal with it?
Would it change if they thought it were original to the New Testament?

PS: this is a real question for me, it is not a rhetorical question.

ERRWSQE
Randall Buth


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