[B-Greek] Itacism of EIS- (P52)
Thomas J. Kraus
t.j.kraus at web.de
Thu Jan 15 02:51:56 EST 2009
Dear colleagues,
in P52 (P.Ryl. III 457) - which is called the oldest textual witness to the
New Testament - the word EISHLQEN (reconstruction by editor Roberts) is only
present as:
IS[
So, Roberts defines this as itacism which is plausible. Roberts also
identifies other itacistic readings:
HMEIN for HMIN
PEILATOS for PILATOS (only in the reconstructed text)
The last two incidents are well attested in papyri/manuscripts, also for the
relevant passage of John.
ISHLQEN, however, is not. I could not find incidents of EIS being written as
IS (or EIS- as IS-). Does anybody know something about that? Also Swanson
does not indicate anything like that for EISHLQEN in John.
Thanks for any reference and help.
Thomas J. Kraus
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