[B-Greek] Luke 1:63 PINAKIDION?
George F Somsel
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Wed May 30 09:00:02 EDT 2007
The only somewhat specific information I have regarding this is that it was a wooden tablet found in BDAG and that it was a wax tablet as mentioned in François Bovon's Hermeneia commentary. I seem to recall reading that wooden tablets were covered with wax for writing notes and could then be "erased."
george
gfsomsel
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From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie at redhat.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:10:23 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Luke 1:63 PINAKIDION?
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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