[B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]
Steve Runge
srunge at logos.com
Mon Dec 31 13:01:28 EST 2007
Jeffrey,
Punctuation is traditionally handled as a text-critical issue, so I would expect that there is some content to be found on the groups that Carl cited on 12/19.
The main academic line of inquiry that I am aware of is described at www.pericope.net. The organization consists primarily of European scholars who are cataloging and describing the scribal conventions for delimiting units of text. Most of their work is focused on the Hebrew bible, though there has been a NT counterpart doing research in into Greek manuscripts. Much of the OT research concerns Greek codices, as they compare how the delimitation attested in the versions compares to that found in the Masoretic Text. There is a significant article by E. Tov, most of which can be read at Google Books (http://tinyurl.com/2xvkcs). This should give you a nice introduction to the issues.
Happy New Year,
Steve
Steven Runge, DLitt (Biblical Languages)
Scholar-in-Residence
Logos Research Systems, Inc.
http://www.logos.com/academic/bio/runge
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey T. Requadt
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:09 AM
To: 'James Ernest'
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]
I finally found a very interesting discussion of ancient Greek punctuation in ATR (pp. 241-245), including a discussion of editorial prerogative. I found out that actually there were some punctuation marks in the papyri, though not all the ones we see in the modern editions. The only problem is, ATR is 88 years old! Is anyone aware of actual scholarly study on the subject since then (i.e., more recent research, not just retelling old ideas)?
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From: james.ernest at gmail.com [mailto:james.ernest at gmail.com] On Behalf Of James Ernest
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:11 AM
To: Jeffrey T. Requadt
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]
On Dec 30, 2007 6:50 PM, Jeffrey T. Requadt <jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, a "raised period" (what is the actual term for that
> punctuation?) could be "roughly" equivalent to an English colon OR
> semicolon,
Smyth doesn't give it a name. In the Unicode tables it is called by its modern Greek designation, ano teleia (where the letter o represents Greek omega, but the Unicode table does not use macron).
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