Hi Steven, there's a small story to this, and that is that there are two ways to do research / problem solving: top-down or bottom-up. The former is usually conducted on the basis of ample documentation, attestation, etc. When there's none of that you can only get knee-deep into the mud and start digging until you find someSteven Avery wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:08 amHi mlinssen,mlinssen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:22 am
Ps 20:6
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
νῦν ἔγνων ὅτι ἔσωσεν κύριος τὸν χριστὸν αὐτοῦ· ἐπακούσεται αὐτοῦ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἁγίου αὐτοῦ· ἐν δυναστείαις ἡ σωτηρία τῆς δεξιᾶς αὐτοῦ.
Just using one of your excellent examples.
Are you concerned that the word χριστὸν is unusual in some way, Christianized?
Or are you just showing the norm, so that those have nomina sacra or unusual spellings can be compared?
Thanks!
Steven
This thread started bottom-up, with collecting all samples of anointed in the LXX (Sweet's) and then comparing the Hebrew (in English, from a Judaic source like sefaria or Chabad) to that of the LXX in order to see what lies behind each source
That was a lot of work, as it turned out. Then I ran into the problem that I don't have a lot of LXX at my disposal in terms of real MSS, so I pulled from Sinaiticus as well as Vaticanus - which was even more work.
But then I ran into the XU of Sinaiticus 21:10...
So I decided to do a top-down instead and retrieved the Sinaiticus Transcription, which is in HTML and way too large to load into a browser. So I did some text handling and curating and now have a naked Transcription that is the diplomatic Transcription as one can see it on their site
So what you see here, in this last post, are the twelve nomina sacra used in the Sinaiticus LXX to denote anointed.
All of which impossible to have existed in any Vorlage of course
I have tried to get more transcriptions but the work that has been done by INTF and others is almost exclusively on the NT
TL;DR: AFAIK these are the nomina sacra that are usually used for Christ in the NT yet they're all applied to anointed in the LXX instead
So what you see in viewtopic.php?p=151700#p151700 is the regular LXX, with the diplomatic from Sinaiticus