[B-Greek] Capital theta in John 1:18?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 16 12:58:01 EST 2009


For many years I have simply ignored such distinctions since they did not exist in the original.  My efforts are more directed toward understanding what the original author intended to say rather than in determining what later editors may have understood regarding it.  Some may be interested in such, but that is not my interest.
 george
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From: John Owlett <owl at postmaster.co.uk>
To: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
Cc: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 10:17:12 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Capital theta in John 1:18?

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, at 08:39 PST, George F Somsel wrote:

> Unless we can manage to get into the mind of the final editors
> who decided in one instance to use lower case and in the other
> to use upper case, whatever we say will necessarily be guesswork.

That's true, of course, for an isolated instance.  If there is a
pattern we can sometimes infer an editorial decision.

Both NA27 and UBS4 capitalize the first letter of a name.

Both NA27 and UBS4 divide the text into paragraphs and capitalize
the first letter of each paragraph.

UBS4, but not NA27, capitalizes the first letter of quoted speech.

In my limited study, I have not seen any other patterns.  I guess
I was hoping that some more observant soul might have spotted one.

John



      


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