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Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:43 pm No declension in Coptic

So was it just I?

I find myself wondering, how did the early Coptic, Syriac, and Latin texts render the name IS/IHS? Any Idea?

Hey Ben, have compiled the NS data from the wikipedia page on this from the list of NS pre 300 into spreadsheet form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomina_sacra#:~:text=In%20Christian%20scribal%20practice%2C%20nomina,word%20spanned%20by%20an%20overline. NS 2.pdf Hope you find this format at all use...

While nothing in the data indicates what came first, IS or IHS, for the name of the XS/XRS I have noted that both forms are used in several texts (45,46,72,75,0162) making me wonder if anyone has done any work in identifying the longer abbreviations as the scribe simply adding an Eta while writing o...

I have used English where I could for simplicity ie Lamda is L etc. O is Omiekron while Om is Omega and Th is Theta to distinguish it from Tau.

I have retained H as Eta to distinguish it from O = Omiekron.

If you see any errors please let me know

Hey Ben, have compiled the NS data from the wikipedia page on this from the list of NS pre 300 into spreadsheet form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomina_sacra#:~:text=In%20Christian%20scribal%20practice%2C%20nomina,word%20spanned%20by%20an%20overline. NS 2.pdf Hope you find this format at all usef...

Paul claimed he had revelations only to boost his credentials as an apostle in order to compensate for his lack of eloquence, a weak bodily presence, with speech of no account. (1 Co 2:1, Cor 10:10). I would not call that Gnostic. Paul makes several claims of revelation. In Paul's view, neither scr...

Exactly.

Just don't tell anyone okay?

I wonder does Iaosotos make sense? At least with Paul? Why do you keep adding an -os to it? It ceases to make sense when you do that. If you want to make it end with a sigma, you could go with σωτήριος. Ἰάω Σωτήριος would make sense. I think there are inscriptions with Ζεὺς Σωτήριος, but they are t...