Potential name changes... NT-GREEK and OT-HEBREW

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• Subject: Potential name changes... NT-GREEK and OT-HEBREW
• From: David John Marotta <djm5g@virginia.edu>
• Date: 04 Apr 94 15:57:20 EDT

With the change to a new list manager comes the possibility of changing
the name of this list.  I have come to regret the Christian-centric
focus of the naming conventions for OT-HEBREW and NT-GREEK. It represents
my interest, but I want to encourage Jewish Hebrew scholars to feel
at home in this list, and the name might make a difference.

For the NT-GREEK list I thought KOINE-L might be better. (Or perhaps
just KOINE).  Does such a list title already exist? Does anyone
have a better name suggestion?

I want to keep the names under 8 characters if possible.

For the OT-HEBREW list, I think the name BIBLICAL HEBREW is probably
less offensive to Jewish scholars, but that does not fit well in
8 characters. I could use simply HEBREW or HEBREW-L, but I didn't
know if that would be confused with modern Hebrew or not.

Any suggestions are welcome, and I am interested in knowing if I am being
overly-sensitive or if others have noticed the names BEFORE I have just
mentioned them, and what reaction they had.

Thanks,

David John Marotta, Medical Center Computing, Stacey Hall
Univ of Virginia (804) 982-3718 wrk INTERNET: djm5g@virginia.edu
Box 512 Med Cntr (804) 924-5261 msg   BITNET: djm5g@virginia
C'ville VA 22908 (804) 296-7209 fax   IBM US: usuvarg8

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