The quotes I have shared, in previous posts, are enough to raise a question and to allow a person that doesn't agree with them to provide contrary evidence. Even if the whole NS is consider to have the exact same semantic range (eg KC= Κύριος) where is the MSS evidence that Κύριος was used in the MSS from 350 BCE into our day? Tov has a list of Greek MSS in chronological order. When do we find the first KS used? Not even on the first page but at the top of the second. (See attachment) The first KC is dated to the 2nd century CE. - P. Baden 56b -Exodus 8. see attachments
David your stand on the NS is also reasonable. In the past some scholars used a quasi form when discussing NS. Some even said the “so called” NS. It is reasonable to ask what is sacred about certain words-e.g. anthropos? However, that is just how language works sometimes! (Sacred names that may not be too sacred!) Good questions but really not the issue I was presenting. KS has some relationship to the tetragrammaton (perhaps a few others too eg. nomina divina). What is that relationship? (There are many opinions which are outside this site) Other NS, whether sacred or not, may or may not help with the issue at hand which again is: “When we encounter LXX passages in the NT that have κύριος as a replacement for Yahweh in the MT what connotation should be given to κύριος?”
Going with the Greek MSS evidence we do not find Κύριος until the second century. So what was in the text in the 1st century?
PS I wonder how Daniel Wallace's paleontologist can be so certain that the Mark fragment is from the 1st century? It will be interesting to see if this will bring new evidence on this discussion.
