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- June 21st, 2011, 12:18 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Nomina Sacra
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17757
Re: Nomina Sacra
Hi Jake, Good luck with your idea. Eph is interesting -- it strikes me as an apostolic encyclical of the same class as the general letters (except 2 and 3 John), this one from Paul. People of that time were used to listening for various cues to help discern structure. The reader played a very import...
- June 14th, 2011, 9:34 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Nomina Sacra
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17757
Re: Nomina Sacra
If a collection of Paul's letters was the first widely published Christian book then it seems a good candidate for the first book to contain nomina sacra. The field would then narrow down to words found in Paul's letters which would give away the book as Christian. This goes some way to explaining w...
- June 14th, 2011, 6:32 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Nomina Sacra
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17757
Re: Nomina Sacra
Hi Everyone, It seems to me that nomina sacra are used for words that might often be heard spoken by Christians. "Mother" would join the list later; frequent use of the rest would be enough for someone in the first century to suspect the speaker was Christian. I think that nomina sacra wer...
- June 1st, 2011, 9:57 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Tim Finney
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2122
Re: Tim Finney
Thanks for all of these pointers, Jonathan.
- June 1st, 2011, 9:44 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Multivariate analysis of textual variation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2719
Multivariate analysis of textual variation
Hi All, This is somewhat tangential to Biblical Greek, although the grist for the mill is Biblical Greek. I've been doing multivariate analysis of textual variation among Greek New Testament witnesses. You can see the results here: tfinney.net/Views/ As it says in the Note, "This is a draft in ...
- June 1st, 2011, 9:19 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Tim Finney
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2122
Tim Finney
Hi Everyone, I did a PhD focussed on the pre-1000 Greek MSS of "To the Hebrews." Here's my latest thing: tfinney.net/Views/. I heard about the new BGreek forum from Wieland Willker on his textualcriticism list at Yahoo groups. What I would really like is to be able to get a daily digest of...