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Ιησους-paradigmn

Posted: December 4th, 2023, 2:01 pm
by Jean Putmans
Ιησους in the Greek non-biblical Papyri has a different Paradigm from biblical Texts (LXX, NT).

Preisigke Namenbuch, Col. 148 (https://archive.org/details/namenbuchen ... 5/mode/1up) has the Name Ιησους (as name of ordinary humans) with the genitiv Ιησουτος.
Mayser, Grammatik der griechischen Papyri aus der Ptolemäerzeit, Vol I, Part II, p. 34, line 21 etc. lists the name ιησους with the Paradigm -ους, -ουτος, -ουτι, -ουν (https://archive.org/details/grammatikde ... 4/mode/1up). The note 2) points to Ionic origins of this paradigm.

Thackeray, A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek, p. 164-165 has for the LXX the Paradigm ιησους, ιησου, ιησοι/ιησου (cp.: https://lexicon.katabib notlon.com/index.php?lemma=Ἰησου, ιησουν); he also mentions the Papyri-Genitiv ιησουτος.

Blass-Debrunner-Funk, 1961, § 55 (P. 31) mentions the Ionic Paradigm, but doesn’t point to Papyri-forms of ιησους.

In the NT there is no ms-witness with forms like ιησουτος, ιησουτι, ιησοι. (There are 1794 instances of the non-abridged name ιησους in the INTF-Transcriptions).

Is this attic influence in the “biblical”-Greek ? Or might there be some other reason for this difference.

Re: Ιησους-paradigmn

Posted: December 4th, 2023, 3:15 pm
by Jason Hare
Jean Putmans wrote: December 4th, 2023, 2:01 pm Is this attic influence in the “biblical”-Greek ? Or might there be some other reason for this difference.
Do you have statistics for the Septuagint? I don’t recall a ιησουτ- stem of the name of Joshua in the LXX, and I would assume that the authors of the NT used the LXX as a linguistic template of sorts. [Edit: I just searched the LXX and found no ιησουτ- form of the name. I think this is significant to your question.]

Re: Ιησους-paradigmn

Posted: December 5th, 2023, 1:39 am
by Jean Putmans
I gave the LXX-Paradigm of Thackaray:
ιησους - ιησου - ιησοι/ιησου - ιησουν.

That is exactly the question:

The non-biblical papyri have a different paradigm from the biblical texts (LXX and NT etc).

In Kata-Biblon one can find the ιησοι-dative in LXX.