[B-Greek] Citation of Greek texts in B-Greek messages
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Oct 21 07:44:09 EDT 2008
On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Nikolaos Adamou wrote:
>
> ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ 8:10 Greek NT: Greek Orthodox Church
> εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν, τὸ μὲν σῶμα
> νεκρὸν δι’ ἁμαρτίαν, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα
> ζωὴ διὰ δικαιοσύνην.
> This is the way all texts have it. What one may gain if alters it
> to «πνεῦμα ζῶν διὰ δικαιοσύνην»?
>
> 1 The list you provided talks about τὸ ζῷον while the
> question was about ζωή.
> ζῷον, ζῷον ,ζῷα, ζῴων are those that live,
> beasts / animals, with ῷ.
> There is not word ζωόν or ζωὸν, in the NT. There is
> ζῷον. The accent IS important.
>
> In Romans 8:10 we have ζωὴ life with ω and not ῳ.
>
> Tom’s references are with respect of the verb ΖΩ which is related
> to ΖΩΗ.
>
> Although I do not think that we should get exercises altering
> further bible’s text.
>
> Now that technology allows using Greek and not Latin characters in
> Greek we may avoid such confusion. Every language has its own
> characters, please use them.
I can read the UTF-8 Greek font here and I have no doubt that many
others can also. But the list-owner and list co-chairs have NOT as yet
changed the list citation guideline requiring addition of the
transliterated ASCII text for those who can NOT read the UTF-8 Greek
font. Unreasonable as some may think our continued adherence to this
policy is, we have not yet changed it:
FAQ (http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.html)
Using Unicode (UTF-8) for Greek citations in messages sent to B-Greek:
Greek citations in messages posted to B-Greek may be formulated in
plain-text Unicode (UTF-8), but for the sake of list-members who have
problems reading or typing Unicode, such citations should at the same
time be formulated in BG-transliteration, in accordance with the
following pattern:
John 1:1 ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ
λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν
ὁ λόγος.
John 1:1: EN ARCHi HN hO LOGOS, KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON
QEON, KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS.
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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