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Re: Question about nomina sacra
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:01 pm
by DCHindley
Blood wrote:Is there a complete list of nomina sacra in early Christian texts? Browsing through the Sinaiticus, you find some unexpected things. ...
Mark 8:19 ιβ the "Twelve" is nomina sacra.
Actually, that is the number "12" (ι = 10 + β = 2) as opposed to δώδεκα which is the word that means "twelve."
DCH
Re: Question about nomina sacra
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:59 pm
by andrewcriddle
Blood wrote:"ει ο χϲ ο υϲ του θυ · you are the Christ, Son of Theos" is pretty interesting in Mark 8:29 because of course "Son of Theos" is missing from 1:1 in the earliest manuscripts. The theologians often use this as evidence of Mark's supposedly "low Christology." How do they explain 8:29?
It is an assimilation of Mark 8:29 to Matthew 16:16 found in Sinaiticus and a few other manuscripts.
Andrew Criddle