From: Peter Smithers (smithersp@aol.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 16:37:50 EST
Why are our modern Greek texts still in miniscule?
Should this practice be changed?
I can see the following advantages of changing to uncial:
1) The text would more accurately reflect the earliest and most important
manuscripts (and the lost autographs)
2) It would make it easier for students to compare their printed Gk NT
with photographs/fascimiles of the papyri and early codices
3) Students would have to cope with only 24 letters, rather than 49 (plus
breathings, accents etc). No need to learn rules about beginning
paragraphs, direct speech and names with capitals
4) Maybe most important. It would make the whole science of textual
criticism easier. For example, itacisms would be simpler to identify, it
becomes more apparent how an epsilon and a (lunate) sigma can be confused.
Responses much appreciated.
Peter Smithers
(MA Theology - Cambridge; MA Islamic Learning - Karachi)
(Research & Training Officer)
WORD OF LIFE
67 Louth Road, Sheffield, S11 7AU, UK
email: smithersp@aol.com
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