In response to the second question: both words, christos and chrestos
would, of course, be pronounced the same. In ancient manuscripts, the
word "Christos" itself occurs most frequently written in contracted
form as nomen sacrum. In those instances we don't know how the scribe
would have spelled it in full. Several church fathers use the word
play christos-chrestos (e.g,. Justin Martyr, Apology 1.4).
In the case of the word "christianos, -h," the spelling with an eta
instead of iota is in fact the common one in documentary papyri (for
example P.Oxy. 42.3035, P.Oxy. 43.3119, SB. 12.10772), but also the
scribe of the Codex Sinaiticus wrote the word chrestianos thus in the
three New Testament passages where that word occurs (Acts 11:26,
26:28 and 1 Pet 4:16).
With kind regards,
AnneMarie Luijendijk
On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Rauchhaupt, Ulf von wrote:
This is already in the german media:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,578055,00.html
concerning this I'd have two questions to the experts:
1) is the connection of OGOISTAIS to magic practices or a deity
called OGO scholarly sound?
2) the replacement of the iota in XRISTOS by an eta (to XRHSTOS) -
is this a commong thing, also found in early christian writings?
thanks and regards
Ulf von Rauchhaupt
Dr. rer. nat. Ulf von Rauchhaupt
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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] Im Auftrag von Wieland Willker
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. September 2008 13:17
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [PAPY] Mysterious DIA CRESTOU inscription
Another enigmatic inscription has surfaced:
DIA CHRESTOU OGOISTAIS
Have a look here:
http://tinyurl.com/6amr2e
Unfortunately I do not have an image of the back, so I cannot judge
the letters OGOISTAIS. I hope I will get one soon.
Best wishes
Wieland
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