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

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Mon Jul 24 15:23:31 EDT 2006


 
 
Steve, you may also want to check out a book that just came out: Junia the  
First Woman Apostle by Eldon Jay Epp and Beverly Roberts Gaventa.
 
Cindy Westfall
Assistant Professor
McMaster Divinity College
 
In a message dated 7/24/2006 9:57:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
klbarney at yahoo.com writes:

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








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