Mac just loves repeating himself, it would seem. Throwing generals at specifics, it's very similar to throwing around context when asked for content.Jax wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:50 pmOi! It just never ends does it?MrMacSon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:19 pmIatacism/Iotacism was a distinct trend and process in post-classic Greek of vowel shift by which a number of vowels and diphthongs, especially those involving eta η, moved and converged towards the pronunciation ' i ' (iota).Jax wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:56 am My question is if the diphthong EI can be I or E how do we know that I was meant in the above passages as opposed to E? I don't see any breather marks that would indicate what was intended. Is there something in the text that clues the reader as to what was intended? Or is it simply a rule that is observed when EI follows a Roe?
ει (epsilon-iota) was part of that trend
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism and 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Gre ... century_AD and following'
(whether it facilitated or was facilitated by a concurrent move from Xρηστός to Χριστός would be both interesting to know and hard to know)
But if I understand him correctly, he is asserting that there was a Chrestus first who later became a Chreistos, and much later a Christos "just because they couldn't get their vowels straight"?
Funny how no one seems to be bothering about Hebrew and Aramaic around issues like these, isn't it? Has any protagonist of any story ever changed his name over the past millenia by the way?
Oh wait, don't we call Odysseus Odessyus?
No