Ιησους-paradigmn
Posted: December 4th, 2023, 2:01 pm
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.
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.