Re: Ot in the NT

From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Fri Jan 16 1998 - 15:29:26 EST


At 11:51 AM 1/16/98 -0800, you wrote:
>On January 15, 1998 10:20 PM
>
> Chris Stanley wrote:
>
>
>> On a related point, Carl might be interested in the argument advanced by
>> Dietrich-Alex Koch in his magisterial work, Die Schrift als Zeuge des
>> Evangeliums (Mohr, 1986), that the original Greek manuscripts of the NT
>> contained the Tetragrammaton in pasages like this.

I checked in Koch; first, there is no subject index so that his discussion
of the tetragram must be hunted down without aid of index. Second, the
table of contents does not mention a discussion of the issue. Though it
might be in Koch, you will have to find it or someone will have to tell you
where it is.

> (Yes, I said NT
>> manuscripts!) The same phenomenon can be seen in the Qumran texts.
>> Unfortunately, I don't have Koch's book handy to rehearse his argument,
>> but the section is clearly marked in his Table of Contents.

Not really. But if you care to give the citation I will be glad to verify
it. I cannot re-read the book now, as other things are more pressing.

>I don't
>> believe I've heard this issue discussed on B-Greek before. Any takers?
>
> Are there any NT texts availabe that actually contian the Tetragrammaton?

No.

>and if so where can they be found ?

Since there are none, they cannot be found.
An interesting article on the subject can be found in the Anchor Bible
Dictionary, vol 6, p. 392-3 under the entry "tetragrammaton in the NT". In
short the article argues that since the OT used the tetragram, the NT
writers must have too- but then scribes came along and changed things.

This, it seems to me, is pure will-o'-wisp historiography. There is simply
no extant ms of the NT that uses the Hebrew name of God. To say that there
might have been is to say nothing at all.

>
>The other thing that I need help with is the meaning of OMEITAI ,which is
>found in LXX Isa 45:23 and listed as a variant in Vaticanus. I have checked
>my lexicons and have not been able to find it.
>

it means "to have a kindly feeling towards someone or something".

> Wishing you the best:
>Jack Vogt
>
>

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
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Quartz Hill School of Theology

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