[B-Greek] an interesting book in archive.org

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 11:35:48 EST 2008


EGRAPSAS

>Trying to find details about the spelling of Ιωάννης/Ιωάνης,
> I discovered a very interesting book entitled Philology of the Gospels.
> The book is available in
> http://www.archive.org/details/philologyofthego00blasuoft.
> Tsialas Vasileios,

EYXAARISTW SOI, TSIALA,

The Blass book, Philology of the Gospels, is a classic.

I see your question on IWANHS.

You may have noticed that I spell my second name
IWANHS Ιωανης.

I do this for the same reasons that Blass accepts this
spelling.
It best fits the Hebrew, without a dageshed nun anywhere,
and more importantly, it is attested that way in the old
mss., notably B Vaticanus.

In addition, there is a 1c ossuary in the Rockefeller Musuem here
in Jerusalem with a neat IWANHS inscribed on the side.
Westcott and Hort accepted IWANHS.

[[But somewhere between then and now the powers that
control the NA//UBS text apparently decided to re-spell good
first century GNT with Erasmus-friendly spellings, but
without telling people what they were doing.

Somewhere in previous editions it was explained that "experts"
in first century spelling were correcting a "4-5th century spelling
bias" with first century spellings. Unfortunately, the "experts"
did not do that. WH were already correct, properly regularized,
and the papyri finds had already established that. It appears
more likely that people just didn't want a canonical text to spell
things in ways that they could not pronounce (like HLEIAS,
DAUEID, and PEILATOS), and they wouldn't want to pronounce
things anything close to Luke or Paul or IWANHS.
A question that I ask myself, if the GNT wrote DAUEID would
seminarians start saying "daweyd", or would they say
"dawiid", maybe even "dhaviidh"? A friend of mine here uses a
Joseph-ian DABIDHS "dhaviidhes", from I don't know what
manuscript tradition.]]

For others who want a copy of Blass' book:
the link in the list email didn't work for me, but it is available there.

Go to www.archive.org
in their search engine type "philology gospel" and you have
two copies with multiple reading and downloading options.

ERRWSQE
IWANHS

-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
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