[B-Greek] Itacism of EIS- (P52)

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 14:16:13 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.

Are you looking for examples like
BarKochba Greek letter 1 line 9 which has IS for EIS?
Randall

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