>===== Original Message From "The papyrological bulletin '[email protected]'" <[email protected]> ===== >DIA XRHSTOYAs for your second point, the replacement of iota with an eta is fairly common in the papyri I have come across: > >SB XVI 12497.50 (Early III) List of Nominations of Liturgies >P.Oxy. XLII 3035.3-5 (28 February A.D. 256) Order of Arrest >P.Oxy. XLIII 3119.14, 18 (A.D. 259-260) Official Correspondence >P.Oxy XLIII 3149.3-4 (V) Letter >P.Laur. II 42 r.2 (U) Letter > >On this point Tertullian complains non-Christians do not pronounce the name correctly and he reiterates that he is a "Christian" not a "Chrestian." (Tertullian, Nat. 1.3.8-9). >See also the discussion in Orsolina Montevecchi, "Nomen Christianum," in Bibbia e Papiri: Luce dai Papiri sulla Bibbia Greca (Barcelona: Institut de Teologia Fonamental, 1999), 155. > >I hope this has been somewhat helpful. > >Lincoln Blumell also in Tacitus > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rauchhaupt, Ulf von > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:15 AM > Subject: [PAPY] DIA XRHSTOY > > > 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 > Redaktion Sonntagszeitung - Wissenschaft > Mail: 60267 Frankfurt am Main, Germany > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: The papyrological bulletin '[email protected]' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > <>< > > > > Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH > Hellerhofstraße 2-4 · 60327 Frankfurt am Main > HRB 7344 . Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bernhardt > Geschäftsführung: Tobias Trevisan (Sprecher), Dr. Roland Gerschermann > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
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