[B-Greek] Textual variants
William Warren
wfwarren at aol.com
Wed Jun 21 11:16:54 EDT 2006
Marion, a large number of the textual differences in manuscripts
actually fall into this category, with the spoken result most often
not causing any problem at all for those listening to the text.
Almost always the differences involve vowel substitutions rather than
consonants (very, very few differences occur with consonants), with
some of the most frequent involving such substitutions as AI/E, E/
EI, E/H, EI/E, EI/I, EI/IEI, H/E, H/EI, H/I, I/EI, I/H, EI/H, O/W,
OU/W, U/H and H/U ( almost always involving UMEIS/YMEIS in various
conjugated forms), and W/O (note that the direction of the shift is
given twice when it is noted in both directions). Of course, many of
these result in valid grammatical forms, such as UMWN versus YMWN,
but the root problem seems to have been vowel confusion that yielded
no major pronunciation difference. These examples are based on
preliminary studies that we've done, with a future thesis by one of
my students in the works on this documenting the shifts in various
time periods based on a large selection of NT mss. as well as some of
the general trends in Greek literature.
paz,
Bill Warren
Director of the Center for New Testament Textual Studies
Landrum P. Leavell, II, Professor of New Testament and Greek
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
On Jun 21, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Marion Fox wrote:
> Marion Fox here,
>
> I have a question about the textual variants in some of the
> manuscripts: "Is
> it possible that some of the variant spellings were caused by
> variants in
> spelling in the Greek that was written?" For example, in English
> the word
> "vapor" is spelled "vapour" in England and "vapor" in the United
> States.
> However when it is spoken we cannot discern any difference (except
> in the
> accent of the speaker).
>
> I have wondered about this for several years.
>
> Yours in His service,
>
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> Marion Fox
>
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