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I have heard from a couple experts here myself. They have noted (a) that the character here starts out going southeast/northwest [atypical for sigma], (b) that the stroke is unbroken [not observed in sigmas], and (c) that the accent placed directly over the character is indicative in this case.

AdamKvanta wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:56 am How about this?

I don't think untrained use of image manipulation programs is the answer.

These iotas once again here.

It is a brute fact that exactly one of : 1. The talmud and the Gospels refer to the same Jesus 2. The talmud and the Gospels do not refer to the same Jesus Is true. it is relative to the thought of the people. For example, Strömholm would answer that 1 is true, while Ellegard would answer that 2 is...

A bunch of comments went up on Goodacre's blog here:

https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/d ... rrier.html

Earl Doherty for example makes an appearance in the comment section.

In case you missed it in 2012:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130121052 ... 70595c.mp3

Carrier comments on it here: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/2839

Valuable work, then. I'm glad to see these kinds of critical lenses being used with reference to post-Nicene texts, which more often don't get read from this perspective.

And here's the character we've been talking about on the third page, which isn't a sigma. the_character.png In the previous example, of a sigma, we can see at the top a stroke that goes down and slightly left before breaking direction. In this example, which is not a sigma, there is a single unbroke...

Ken Olson wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:36 am I think you should include the final sigma in ἔχοντος from page 2, line 16 among the comparanda.

Theodore 2.16 ἔχοντος.png

Here's an image of just the same final sigma cropped from Hedrick's / Viklund's bitmap file (uncompressed).

JarekS wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:06 pm Marta Przyszychowska (https://bn-pl.academia.edu/MartaPrzyszy ... culumVitae) came to this conclusion after 20 years of dealing with Gregory of Nyssa.

Thanks, appreciate the reference!