[B-Greek] different sorts of scripts and levels of notation of diacritical marks in biblical greek
Andrew Ball
anball at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 15:34:22 EDT 2008
What sorts of scripts are we aware of for different available ancient
documents of Biblical Greek (including the Septuagint)?
We have several manuscripts that are written in the same style as most
Greek Orthodox icons, right? (That is, all one case, with sigma
written as what looks like a Cyrillic 's' or capital C in English, as
well as an interesting combination of sigma and tau that looks a bit
like a Fraktur or Gothic capital ess)?
I'm very interested in making something like a replica of an ancient
manuscript myself -- say something written on Papyrus (preferrably
with papyrus that I've made myself -- I've seen that process before,
back when I was very young in elementary school and was always reading
about ancient Egypt). Or perhaps something like one of the codices?
What sorts of media do we know about? I don't know what the codices
were written on, but something like pieces of wood joined together
with some form of string comes to mind. The actual parchment used for
that type of manuscript would have been vellum, made from some sort of
animal skin, right?
I'd also very much like a reference on how to interpret the script
used in Greek icons (which I'm told was used commonly until around the
3rd century AD).
Thanks for any help you're able to provide.
Peace,
Andrew
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