Clivedurdle

Disagreed? Tel Dan and the discussion of Jesus about paradise are exactly to my point - there are probably many many more examples.

Roger Pearse

I'm not sure what you think that you are saying; however the assertion that the introduction of punctuation caused wild variations in manuscript readings is one that, if you are serious, you need to document from the manuscripts.

Clivedurdle

I have two examples Tel Dan and Paradise. Philosopher Jay pointed out we cannot be certain about capitalisation - christ or annoint.

That is three huge ones without even researching things in depth!

Julian

You cannot cite capitalization of certain words in the latter case. I don't know what the first two things you refer to are exactly but christ or annoint would not be relevant for several reasons.

1) One is a verb and the other a proper noun. Syntacically it would be clear which is which.

2) Christ frequently appears as a nomen sacrum removing all doubt.

3) Capitalization, the use of upper and lower case, was such a late development that the text would would have been well-known enough that such errors would be virtually impossible.

There are lots of scribal errors and many reasons for them, this would not be one of them.

Julian

Roger Pearse

I'm afraid that you are mistaken. Sorry.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Clivedurdle

Why is it a google search of nomen sacrum finds scholastic articles questioning if a nomen sacrum is a nomen sacrum?

For example:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action...ine&aid=361071

What did Umberto Eco say about translation and interpretation? For example:

http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_author.html

Julian

Not sure, but try the plural which is how it is normally seen: nomina sacrum.

Chris Weimer

nomina sacra.

Julian

Doh! That's what happens when typing while running out the door with people yelling at you to hurry up. I really do know better, honestly.

Julian

Chris Weimer

You had better!

Easy, amice, we all make typos.