From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Sat Jun 20 1998 - 09:34:55 EDT
At 05:30 PM 6/19/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Can somebody answer this for me: Were accents (and/or breathings) part
>of the original manuscripts?
no.
>They're in my greek bible, and some
>variants have slightly different accents to others; but when I've seen
>the odd photocopy of an ancient manuscript, it is in capitals
>(=uncials???) and has no visible accents.
Right. The accents are aids to the reader.
>So are they in the original - or not? And if not, why bother learning
>them?
>
Because they help in word pronunciation- though now you have to decide if
you want to be an erasmian!
>Thanks!
>
>Tim (a newish student of exegesis...)
>
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Pastor, Petros Baptist Church
Adjunct Professor of Bible,
Quartz Hill School of Theology
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