From: James Forsyth (james@bigbeing.com.au)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 02:39:29 EST
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Hi Peter,
Perhaps one could say the same for accents as well. Didn't uncial scripts
dispense with them?
I personally find some cursive PHIs and KAIs inconvenient.
James Forsyth
At 04:37 PM 4/04/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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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