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- July 12th, 2021, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: Christian 'corruption' of Psalms 14/53 to match Romans 3:10-18
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31000
- July 12th, 2021, 1:50 pm
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: Christian 'corruption' of Psalms 14/53 to match Romans 3:10-18
- Replies: 20
- Views: 31000
Re: Christian 'corruption' of Psalms 14/53 to match Romans 3:10-18
There seems to be a hidden premise - that the original, pre-Christian Septuagint must have conformed exactly to the Proto-Masoretic text, prior to its corruption by Christians. The other hidden premise would be that the 'corruptions' originated with the NT authors (such as Paul in Romans 3:10-18), ...
- January 22nd, 2020, 10:08 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: How was αι in Hebrew PNs like Ιεσσαι read by Koine Greek speakers in early MSS of the New Testament?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5118
Re: How was αι in Hebrew PNs like Ιεσσαι read by Koine Greek speakers in early MSS of the New Testament?
The Romans called the area Syria Palaestina, a formal designation after the Bar Kochba rebellion, and simply part of the province of Syria prior to that. Josephus is generally said to be earliest author to use the name, as here (Ant. 1:136): https://archive.org/details/L242JosephusVJewishAntiquitie...
- January 19th, 2020, 9:31 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Colors in Ancient Greek
- Replies: 37
- Views: 48191
Re: Colors in Ancient Greek
“Blue” in the OT is usually תְּכֵלֶת (tekelet) in Hebrew, which in the LXX is generally translated as either ὑάκινθος or ὑακίνθινος. In some passages, however, these Hebrew and Greek terms can appear in English as either “violet” or “purple”. In addition, ὑακίνθινος is also sometimes used in the LXX...
- January 14th, 2020, 7:36 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Colors in Ancient Greek
- Replies: 37
- Views: 48191
Re: Colors in Ancient Greek
That's what I find perplexing about the different colors used to describe Jesus' robe in the gospels. It seems like those are two distinct/different colors, and not simply two different descriptions of the same color. The explanation, I think, is that the soldiers are engaging in mockery. Just as t...
- January 3rd, 2020, 7:50 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: How was αι in Hebrew PNs like Ιεσσαι read by Koine Greek speakers in early MSS of the New Testament?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5118
Re: How was αι in Hebrew PNs like Ιεσσαι read by Koine Greek speakers in early MSS of the New Testament?
That depends. If the larger language community is using manuscripts with spelling such as these that overtly distinguish between the two pronunciations, then those communities would have also continued pronouncing Hebrew names as [ai] rather than [ε]. Conversely if the community is not using such m...
- January 2nd, 2020, 9:31 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: How was αι in Hebrew PNs like Ιεσσαι read by Koine Greek speakers in early MSS of the New Testament?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5118
Re: How was αι in Hebrew PNs like Ιεσσαι read by Koine Greek speakers in early MSS of the New Testament?
Your sources seem to be conceding that only a small minority of scribes, largely restricted to those who knew Hebrew or Aramaic, or both, in addition to Greek, ever used the alternative spellings corresponding to αϊ. If that is the case, surely the corollary is that |ε| had by then become the standa...
- December 29th, 2019, 9:09 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Luke 2:7 - No room at the inn?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2632
Re: Luke 2:7 - No room at the inn?
Moeris simply gives the Attic equivalent for κατάλυμα: καταγώγιον, which also has similar vagueness issues. I haven't looked at Campbell or Major, but discussions on this are very old. I gave one from the 16th century, when the basic contours of the case were already known to a Spanish philologist....
- December 17th, 2019, 8:35 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: θύρα in Acts 3:2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4650
Re: θύρα in Acts 3:2
In the Hellenistic world they must have had an architectural feature of the *porte-cochère* kind, along the lines of the one pictured here (link below). The question has to do with the naming of parts. I have little doubt that the two wings of the large double gate (or door) are a pair of πύλαι, but...
- December 14th, 2019, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: θύρα in Acts 3:2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4650
Re: θύρα in Acts 3:2
Applying that to a word such as θύρα works pretty well. The central meaning seems to be an opening through which things or people can pass, which can be closed, and which was man-made. But that could equally well serve as the central meaning of πύλη, couldn’t it? Just as in English it could serve e...