[B-Greek] Rom. 16:7: Junia or Junias?

Kevin Barney klbarney at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 24 12:57:38 EDT 2006


Steve, here is the beginning of a prior thread on this
topic from the archives (if you go to this message and
click "Sort by Thread" you will see the other messages
in the series):

<http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/test-archives/html4/1995-11/11460.html>

> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:44:30 -0400
> From: Steve Hulme <stevehulme at stevehulme.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Rom. 16:7:  Junia or Junias?
> To: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> The text in my UBS (3rd edition) for this verse is:
> ASPASASQE ANDRONIKON 
> KAI IOUNIAN TOUS SUGGENEIS MOU KAU SUNAICMALWTOUS
> MOU...
> 
> My question is this:  the nominative form of the
> second individual 
> mentioned must be either IOUNIAS (masc) or IOUNIA
> (fem).  But I can't 
> tell from the text which it is.  Does the form
> IOUNIAN (with a 
> circumflex accent on the final alpha) give us a hint
> somehow about the 
> gender of the person referred to?  Is there some
> modern scholarship that 
> would be helpful on this point?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Steve Hulme
> Raleigh, NC
> 
> 

Kevin L. Barney
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
klbarney at yahoo.com

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