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Re: Translation INTO Koine Greek

To: "Stevens, Charles C" <Charles.Stevens@unisys.com>
Subject: Re: Translation INTO Koine Greek
From: "Edgar M. Krentz" <emkrentz@mcs.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:24:03 -0500
Cc: b-greek@virginia.edu
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=ATTMAIL_%p=UNISYS%l=MV_EXCHANGE_-970605202004Z-12442@slc-exchange-1.slc.unisys.com>

>Also, as it's my plan to use uncials, are breathing marks, accents and
>subscript iotas conventional in inscriptions (monumental or otherwise)
>or are they usually left out?
>
>Thanks for any assistance!

Acient Greek Inscriptions used no breathings, no accents, no iota
subscripts; rther they used iota adscripts. Inscriptions sometimes
separated words by a dot placed in the center of the line. In the period of
the NT, they often used a lunar sigma, that looked like a capital C.


Edgar Krentz, Prof. of New Testament
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Translation INTO Koine Greek

From: "Stevens, Charles C" <Charles.Stevens@unisys.com>

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