Re: Qumran Greek

From: Elaine Keown (elaine_keown@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 21:03:45 EST

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Elaine in central Texas

Hi,

> I would guess that the first of your symbols, if
> Greek, is a PARAGRAPHOS or a FORKED PARAGRAPHOS.
> It's also used in Coptic.

Yes, both of those seem to be at Qumran.
In Coptic, do you know what period of time they are
in?

> The X looks like a CHI of course.

Even though it's sort of curvy and oversized?--though
of course you can't tell the size from this. I had
been assuming that it was something else, since
Emanuel Tov didn't name it as such and he mostly did Septuagint....Elaine

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