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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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