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When I run The Center for New Testament Textual Studies: NT Critical Apparatus. in a search window the first hit is Logos software https://www.logos.com/product/32501/cen ... -apparatus

That BibleWorks 10 software looks very useful. Do you have a preferred source for buying it? They stopped making it. :| Dang! That CNTTS apparatus looks like exactly what I am looking for. Any ideas? It is apparently also available for Logos and for Accordance . I have used neither of these, but Da...

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:26 am

Jax wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:58 amThat BibleWorks 10 software looks very useful. Do you have a preferred source for buying it?

They stopped making it.

Dang! That CNTTS apparatus looks like exactly what I am looking for. Any ideas?

Of course, we can see the core set being developed in a rather different direction in the Nag Hammadi tomes, which add supralinear strokes to the names of various important entities (Sabaoth, Adam, Enoch, Gamaliel, and so on), without abbreviating those names. Those tomes abbreviate only Greek loan...

To begin with the following English letters will be used for Greek unical letters. Sorry for any confusion. C = Lunate Sigma A = Alpha E = Epsilon H = Eta Th = Theta I = Iota K = Kappa L = Lambda N = Nu O = Omicron P = Pi R = Rho T = Tau Y = Upsilon X = Chi Om= Omega NS = Nomina Sacra One thing abo...

To bad there are no use of either David or Israel being used.

One odd thing. There was no Coptic word for Jerusalem?

Interesting. How do they abbreviate Christ and Jesus? Do they use both XC, XR, and XRC as well as the various ways that IHCOYC is rendered? or do they just use simple renderings like XC and IC? Coptic is not an inflected language (no noun cases), so the choices are more limited than in Greek. See t...

^ It's also very interesting that God and Lord aren't handled like Christ and Jesus.

I like this. I also like Trobisch's point of this being a very specific editorial decision, at least with the Big Four, and I think that goes beyond anti-imperial psyops and so were also in the world of counter-arguments to unorthodox positions (including names). Thanks. And I completely agree that...