From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 13:31:54 EDT
At 05:28 PM 6/2/00 +0000, you wrote:
>
>For the first time I saw pictures of ancient New Testament Greek documents.
>It didn't look like my UBS3 at all.
>
>I was then informed that first century Greek did not have punctuations or
>accents.
>
>Is this correct?
yes it is correct. the oldest mss are in all caps as well- with no space
between words.
>
>Is so, when did punctuations and accents first appear?
much later.... much!
>
>Also, did earlier Greek (Hellenistic and Homeric, etc) have punctuations and
>accents?
no.
on these and other questions take a look at Metzgers "Text of the NT"
best,
Jim
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