In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: nomen sacrum, Latin for 'sacred name') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine...
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Papyrus 46 (section Nomina Sacra)
𝔓46 uses an extensive and well-developed system of nomina sacra. It contains the following nomina sacra in abbreviated form (nominative case): ΚΣ (κυριος...
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century the origin of the same nomina sacra, omitting only πνεῦμα. Michael J. Kruger says that, for the nomina sacra convention to be so widespread as...
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P. Baden 56b (section Nomina sacra)
the word κς to refer to God, written with the abbreviations known as nomina sacra. Tov 2003, pp. 479. Meyer 2022, pp. 237. Hans-Udo Rosenbaum; Kurt Aland...
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Papyrus 95 (section Nomina Sacra)
homoeoteleuton. The fragment should have the word πατήρ contracted (nomina sacra) in two places, but instead, lacuane. List of New Testament papyri Philip...
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P.Deissmann (section Nomina sacra)
with small cursive script in 20-22 lines per page. This manuscript has nomina sacra κς to represent the title Κύριος. Mugridge 2016, pp. 171. Hurtado 2006...
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Rylands Gr 457) and the Nomina Sacra; Method and Probability, Tyndale Bulletin 54.1, 2003 Christopher M. Tuckett, P52 and Nomina Sacra, New Testament Studies...
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Seminary Harmonia Sacra, a Mennonite shape note hymn and tune book Isola Sacra, an island in the Lazio region of Italy south of Rome Nomina sacra, the tradition...
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157. Katičić, Radoslav (1972). "Drei Altbalkanische Nomina Sacra" [Three Old-Balkan Nomina Sacras]. Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja (in German)...
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Minuscule 543 (section Nomina sacra and OT quotations)
Patriarchates (as in codices 69 and 211), of which one page is lost.: 27 The nomina sacra are contracted in the usual way, but there are a number of words which...
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visible distinctions may include: less frequent use of abbreviations in "nomina sacra"; treating digraph ⟨оу⟩ as a single character rather than two letters...
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instead of ΠΙΛΑΤΟΣ, ΦΑΡΕΙΣΑΙΟΙ instead of ΦΑΡΙΣΑΙΟΙ, etc.: 74 ff, 93–94 Nomina sacra with overlines are employed throughout. Some words usually abbreviated...
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Another method employed was to abbreviate frequent words, such as the nomina sacra. Yet another method involved the palimpsest, a manuscript which recycled...
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21st Century Edition and Biblehub's King James Purple Letter Edition. Nomina sacra – Christian scribal practice Retskrivningsreformen af den 22. marts 1948...
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Sophia. The medallions on both sides of the Virgin's head carry the nomina sacra MP and ΘΥ, abbreviations of the Greek: Μήτηρ του Θεοῦ, romanized: Mētēr...
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of the Holy Name of Jesus was introduced in 1530. The veneration of Nomina sacra in the form of variants of the Christogram has a tradition going back...
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the word "Holy" embroidered three times on it in large letters, using nomina sacra where customary, in reference to the Trisagion. In modern Greek Orthodox...
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entirely if they could be inferred from the rest of the text. So-called nomina sacra ('sacred names') were used in many Greek biblical manuscripts. The common...
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Nomina Sacra, whereas the second occurrence is spelled fully. In John 1:18 the word "God" (which no one has seen) is contracted (as the Nomina Sacra)...
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AqBurkitt (section Tetragrammaton and nomina sacra)
reception history of Aquila's translation among Jews or to the use of nomina sacra by Jews. In an article focused on the topic, Edmon L. Gallagher concludes...
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to have contained roughly 236 pages.: 1:901 The manuscripts employ nomina sacra, special abbreviations for names/words considered sacred in Christianity...
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14-15, 18-20; 15:1, 4-7. The manuscript has evidence of the following nomina sacra (names/titles considered sacred in Christianity): ΙΗΛ (Israel), ΑΥΤΟΥ...
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Orthodox Church; Coptic letters (Ⲓⲏ̅ⲥ̅ Ⲡⲭ̅ⲥ̅ Ⲡ̀ϣⲏⲣⲓ ⲙ̀ⲪϮ) are abbreviated nomina sacra for "Ⲓⲏⲥⲟⲩⲥ Ⲡⲓⲭ̀ⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ Ⲡ̀ϣⲏⲣⲓ ⲙ̀Ⲫ̀ⲛⲟⲩϯ" (Iêsous Piekhristos Epshêri Emefnouti;...
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Vienna papyrus is written in Greek. The scribe did not use abbreviated nomina sacra, which may indicate that he was Jewish. It is unclear, however, which...
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by contraction and was mostly a Christian usage for sacred words, or Nomina Sacra; non-Christian sigla usage usually limited the number of letters the...
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used within the lines themselves.: 114 It employs the use of numerous nomina sacra (special names/words considered sacred in Christianity - usually the...
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symbolism Holy Name of Jesus INRI Little Sachet Names and titles of Jesus Nomina sacra The portmanteau of Christo- and -gramma is modern, first introduced in...
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Gospel of John. The manuscript also contains, consistently, the use of Nomina Sacra. Studies done by Karyn Berner and Philip Comfort contended that 𝔓66...
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out in "performed by evil angels" in Psalm 77. This corresponds to the Nomina sacra (Latin: "Sacred names") tradition of using contractions for certain frequently...
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the author and recipient were of the upper class) uses the Christian nomina sacra and the Biblical Greek: ἐν κυρίῳ, romanized: en kyrίōi, lit. 'in the...
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