[B-Greek] Luke 1:63 PINAKIDION?
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at redhat.com
Wed May 30 07:10:23 EDT 2007
I'm curious about what kind of writing tablet a PINAKIDION is in Luke 1:63:
Luke 1:63 KAI AITHSAS PINAKIDION EGRAYEN LEGWN,
IWANNHS ESTIN ONOMA AUTOU
Luke 1:63 καὶ αἰτήσας πινακίδιον ἔγραψεν λέγων, ** πινακίδιον="writing
tablet"
Ἰωάννης ἐστὶν ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.
A.T. Robertson says this:
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> *Tablet * (PINAKIDION). Diminutive of PINAKIS. In Aristotle and the
> papyri for writing tablet, probably covered with wax. Sometimes it was
> a little table, like Shakespeare's "the table of my memory" (Hamlet,
> i.5). It was used also of a physician's note-book.
Is this accurate?
Would this have been wood covered with beeswax? Would a stick be used to
write on it? I saw a mosaic once with a wax tablet with about 8 pages -
what range of sizes were in common use?
Jonathan
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