[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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