Kata Markon

["Ted Blakley" <jtedblakley AT gmail.com>]

Dear John,
     As Jeffrey suggested this is a text critical question. Looking at Swanson I see that for Mark 1:16-17, there are three different spellings for word "fishers." I say spellings because these are all the same grammatical form, masc. nom. plural.

1.  hALEEIS
2.  hALEIEIS
3.  hALIEIS

hALEEIS (1) is the reading found in Westcott-Hort; though Tishendorf and the UBS4/NA27 regard hALIEIS (3) as being original. Of course, these variations are not differences in the "text" but differences in orthographic representation of the text. 

In Liddell-Scott, the lexical entry for the masc. nom. sing. is hALIEUS with a note that it was later written as hALEEUS. Thus we have two different stems hALI- and hALE- which would explain 1 and 3. Without having done any research, my impression is that (2) is a scribal error and so does not reflect an additional spelling in currency. After all, (2) occurs in just two manuscripts (D, L*) and a corrector came along in L and changed it from hALEIEIS (2) to hALEEIS (3).

Sincerely,
Ted Blakley

On 10/07/06, John Gale <johngale AT hotkey.net.au> wrote:

DearScholsrs,

Can you advise me on this query please?

Mark1.16 & 17

alieiß   alieuß (alaß)  NOUN masculine plural nominative   fisherman

One translation renders it as aleeiß 

Is there grammatical or linguistic support for this?

Sincerely,

John Gale

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