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

James Ernest j.d.ernest at bc.edu
Wed Dec 23 22:46:19 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Ernest <jdernest at alum.bu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> ----------------------------
>> John Owlett, Southampton, UK
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