tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post6749228384593176073..comments2024-03-28T19:21:17.654+00:00Comments on Evangelical Textual Criticism: Reading Elitism in AntiquityP.J. Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388225485348300613noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-41929255449017623892011-08-15T22:09:29.183+01:002011-08-15T22:09:29.183+01:00"Nor should I have taken notice of it, but th..."Nor should I have taken notice of it, but that it appears strange to me, that any person should have told us, that he sent a successor to a consular lieutenant of a province, as an ignorant, illiterate fellow, upon his observing that he had written ixi for ipsi."<br /><br />If I can rephrase this in modern English, Suetonius saw it as extremely hypocritical that Augustus reportedly fired one of his governors for displaying his ignorance in misspelling the word ipsi, when he himself typically spelled words according to rules of his own.<br /><br />I agree that this shows that elitisim ruled the literary world. The Emperor may well have excused himself from following the rules, but could not extend that consideration to a lesser subject.Daniel Bucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-57391021951026088822011-08-14T18:28:33.902+01:002011-08-14T18:28:33.902+01:00re: "he never divides his words, so as to car...re: "he never divides his words, so as to carry the letters which cannot be inserted at the end of a line to the next, but puts them below the other, enclosed by a bracket"--<br /><br />Wow, that almost sounds like the completely counter-intuitive habit of the BHS typesetters: words that overflow in longer poetic lines are wrapped *above* and placed in brackets (pity the poor student who comes across Ps 135:6-11 for the first time!).<br /><br />Clearly, BHS is an elitist text :)<br /><br />michaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859011.post-70955427443737113182011-08-14T07:09:59.840+01:002011-08-14T07:09:59.840+01:00Interesting. This raises the question what did the...Interesting. This raises the question what did the biblical authors (and scribes) do, seeing that there are orthographical issues in the NT manuscript tradition.<br /><br />I am partial to this, as part of my dissertation was dealing with this. I suggested two things. 1) a move towards Attic spelling, and 2) a counter-move to a later Koine spelling. Depends on the words and scribes.Timo Flinknoreply@blogger.com