[B-Greek] strange looking pi?

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Mon Sep 25 20:21:13 EDT 2006


The mystery remains, why are both forms of PI used in the LXX edition in 
question?  It doesn't seem to make sense, pragmatically or linguistically.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com

frjsilver at optonline.net wrote the following on 9/25/2006 6:59 PM:
> This is merely the way in which PI is written in cursive script, even in Modern Greek.
>
> Father James Silver
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Curtis Hinson 
> Date: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:45 pm
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] strange looking pi?
> To: Jim Darlack , B Greek 
> Cc: opoudjis at opoudjis.net
>
>   
>> Well, this is fun and interesting. Perhaps this information is 
>> of interest:
>>
>> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/letters.html#lunatesigma
>>
>> This guy (Nick Nicholas) is a research linguist/programmer for 
>> TLG. The 
>> information was of additional interest to me because some months 
>> back I 
>> asked if anyone knew why Greek even has terminal and internal 
>> forms of 
>> Sigma, instead of having positional forms for all letters like 
>> Arabic, 
>> or none at all, like English.
>>
>> Also Dr Nicholas seems to promote the use of monotonic so that 
>> makes him 
>> cool in my book. :-D 
>>
>> Bless the Name
>> Curtis Hinson
>> http://curtishinson.com
>>
>>
>> Jim Darlack wrote the following on 9/25/2006 3:15 PM:
>>     
>>> While looking at an old printed edition of the LXX, some 
>>>       
>> friends and I
>>     
>>> came across a strange character that represents the letter pi.
>>>
>>> The character basically looks like a lowercase omega with a 
>>>       
>> line across
>>     
>>> the top.
>>>
>>> See the jpeg here: http://www.oldinthenew.org/images/pi.jpg 
>>>       
>> (image of
>>     
>>> Cardo font glyph U+03D6).
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, there's no rhyme or reason why this 
>>>       
>> character is
>>     
>>> used rather than the regular pi.
>>>
>>> For instance, both the traditional pi, and this other pi are 
>>>       
>> both used
>>     
>>> in this scan (http://www.oldinthenew.org/images/pitxt.jpg). 
>>>       
>> Compare v.
>>     
>>> 19 with the regular pi to vv. 26/27, 11 & 12 with the strange 
>>>       
>> pi. The
>>     
>>> strange pi is only used when it begins a word, but the regular 
>>>       
>> pi is
>>     
>>> used to begin a word as well. In 26/27, both characters are 
>>>       
>> used in the
>>     
>>> same word - PROSWPA.
>>>
>>> Note also the strangely formed beta in the first line in 
>>>       
>> FOBHQENTHS and
>>     
>>> the second gamma in ANAGGEILWSI.
>>>
>>> Curious,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
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