Nomina Sacra
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Nomina Sacra
Could anyone please help with an explaination of what words were written as nomina sacra and how widespread their use was?
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Re: Nomina Sacra
There are some good references and discussion in this earlier thread on nomina sacra: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... ?f=6&t=226
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Re: Nomina Sacra
Was it a scribal tradition outside of the Biblical tradition that was also employed in copying Biblical texts?Jonathan Robie wrote:There are some good references and discussion in this earlier thread on nomina sacra: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... ?f=6&t=226
That thread is cool, but doesn't really cover wider issues that would indicate whether it was intrinsicly "sacred". I seem to recall seeing some abbreviations that the editors had expanded out in my Loeb copy of the non-literary papyri - they wouldn't be nomina sacra, but nomina sacra are abbreviations of common words. From memory is was for the names and titles of the emperors and other rulers, monetary units, perhaps dates, as well as some other things ... I wish I had that volume with me here.
Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)