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Reading up on the CNTTS Apparatus https://www.accordancebible.com/article/buzz-articles-cntts-php/ I don't see any unical. Is unical NS included in the examples? Uncial manuscripts are certainly included, but their typeface is modern and standardized, as per the norm. You can the see which manuscri...

Jax wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:58 am Reading up on the CNTTS Apparatus https://www.accordancebible.com/article ... cntts-php/ I don't see any unical. Is unical NS included in the examples?

Uncial manuscripts are certainly included, but their typeface is modern and standardized, as per the norm.

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...

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.

The writings attributed to Josephus do not mention the apostle Paul so you have no historical evidence to date the apostle Paul before c 70 CE. Josephus does mention someone named Saul who I think resembles Paul. Both are said to have lived during the same time and were related to the Herodians (&q...

Since Pliny in Chapters and sections surrounding his chapter on the Nazerini mentions places named in the 1st century AD and cites Corbulo and Mucianus as sources of information, one can't automatically say that the information in Book 5 Chapter 19 must have been totally from the 1st century Syrian...

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...

Right on Ben, that is very interesting. The way that the Nag Hammadi texts are using things like the chi roh symbol and the tau with head symbol seems to me that they are using a later form of abbreviations and symbiology. What think you? It certainly seems so to me. Of course, parts of the (proto-...

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...

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...