tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post113040525911192175..comments2024-03-28T19:21:17.654+00:00Comments on Evangelical Textual Criticism: Vowels in VoelzP.J. Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-1131097175544876992005-11-04T09:39:00.000+00:002005-11-04T09:39:00.000+00:00Thank you, Stephen, for bringing my attention to t...Thank you, Stephen, for bringing my attention to this section again. I see it had merited triple exclamation marks in my copy when I read it as an undergraduate 13 or so years ago! Blass concludes '... the only possible procedure for an editor of the NT is, of course, to carry through Attic spelling without any regard to the MSS.' This rather pessimistic conclusion seems basically to discourage research for patterns that could enable editors to go beyond the pragmatic adoption of Attic spelling. Moreover, based on what the authors say, the sentence 'The possibility is accordingly precluded that even Lk and Paul employed the correct historical spelling of I and EI; how they actually wrote is unknown to us' involves a non sequitur. Thereafter the second part is a statement of our present ignorance based upon our lack of research, not necessarily on the lack of available evidence. It is highly unlikely that a question on which there is such a large quantity of data cannot be advanced with further research.P.J. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-1131075078003536002005-11-04T03:31:00.000+00:002005-11-04T03:31:00.000+00:00For more information about the frequent use of ει ...For more information about the frequent use of ει (EI) for ῑ (long I), see, e.g., Blass-Debrunner-Funk § 23 (p. 13) and the references it cites.Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.com