[B-Greek] Capital theta in John 1:18?
John Owlett
owl at postmaster.co.uk
Tue Dec 15 17:10:07 EST 2009
Hi everyone,
Since I have both the UBS Reader's Edition and the NET Diglot, I have a copy of both versions of the latest reasoned eclectic text ... the UBS 4th edition and the Nestle-Aland 27th edition. I have read that, although the footnotes for these are very different, the text itself is the same apart from capitalization and punctuation. My question to-day is about punctuation, specifically capitalization.
Obviously, there were no issues of capitalization in the original autographs, so this is of no theological importance at all ... I just don't like not understanding what is going on.
Both versions capitalize names and the first word of each paragraph. Fair enough. The UBS version also capitalizes the first word of quoted speech, which the NA version doesn't. So in John 1:15 (New English Translation):
>> John testified about him and shouted out, "This one was the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is greater than I am....'"
>> ... KEKRAGEN LEGWN hOUTOS HN hON EIPON hO OPISW ...
hOUTOS and hO are capitalized in the UBS version but not in the NA version.
So far, so good.
But just three verses later, at the beginning of John 1:18:
>> No one has ever seen God.
>> QEON OUDEIS hEWRAKEN PWPOTE
QEON has a capital theta in the NA version but not in the UBS version.
Why is this?
Later,
Dr Owl
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John Owlett, Southampton, UK
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