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Interesting. However, as Ken Olson pointed out, it's not exactly the same situation. Unlike τῆς and τὴν examples, the ending ligatures, like -ος, are not so suitable for adding an acute or grave accent, IMO. Maybe if I see an example of ending ligature with an acute accent, I will change my opinion...

1. How did early Christians perceive “talking to oneself”? Interesting question. Was prayer intended to mostly replace it, ie orienting all self-talk to speech to/about God? In the gospels Jesus doesn't seem to have any inner life at all. If he is angry, or has pity, or scared, it is always express...

Inspired by RG Price's thesis that Mark was written by allegorizing from the Septuagint, it strikes me that one way of investigating whether Secret Mark was writen by the same person who wrote Mark, is to see if the story can be read as being allegorized from an episode in the Septuagint. Curiously,...

. Defending the possibility of something often makes us more confident that it's actually true, even in the absence of any real evidence. Your concern is valid, because this is a well-known cognitive bias. You are a stats guy right? Since the probabilities must sum to 1, the more probability you as...

Did you find any examples of the scribe placing an accent in the empty space to the right of a word ending in a ligature (as opposed to placing it over a letter to the right of a ligature)? Ha, I didn't look, I just knew about that example because I stared at your pictures so hard they are burned i...

So the question of the general use of the ligatures might be for another thread. Oh man, I'd prefer to have them here, at least those which are directly relevant to deciding this question anyways. The secret Mark stuff is already quite spread out, and its hard enough to get a sense of what ground h...

Matthew loves to double all kinds of things. Double blind men healed....he even rides into Jerusalem on a donkey and a horse!! Is the Donkey James and the colt Paul?

perhaps it was Marcion himself that dropped Bethsaida from the Evangelion i.e. Ephraim had a copy of the Evangelion prior to Marcion dropping Bethsaida from his copy of this early gospel. Sure, or somebody dropped Nazareth from the Evangelion as part of an evolving theology which was trying to dist...

The only thing I can say at the moment is that Matthew and Mark have wildly different incentives. Matthew, at least the sermon on the mount, is concerned with ethics; Mark is concerned with mystery. What is more mysterious than love your enemies? I mean, even the Gospel of Thomas has parallels to t...

It's possible that Ephraem attributes 'Bethsaida' here to the Diatessaron, which is a primary focus of his commentary, and that the remarks on Marcion here regard other aspects. Quite so; but Couchcloud does read Ephriam as explicitly saying that in the copy of the Ev which he had, it was Bethsaida...