[B-Greek] Capital theta in John 1:18?
James Ernest
jdernest at alum.bu.edu
Tue Dec 22 08:34:54 EST 2009
I don't see a reply to this.
Neither UBS nor NA caps the first word of every sentence. Both cap the first
word of a new paragraph, a quotation, or a sense unit smaller than a
paragraph (NA caps and uses extra spaces; UBS just caps), but they differ
regarding all three of these divisions. At John 1:18, NA seems to indicate
more of a sense break than UBS.
James Ernest
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM, John Owlett <owl at postmaster.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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