Peter,
I have to question the counting of iota. In the _Westminster Dictionary
of the Bible_ (1944), p. 622, there is a reproduction of Esther 2:6-8 of
the LXX from the Codex Sinaiticus (4th cent.). The modern text has
subscript iotas on TOUTO and AUTE (v. 7). The ancient text does not have
iotas. I do not know when datives were modified with the iota subscript,
but they are not part of the original sacred test. Is not using a
modernized text to make things come out right illegitimate?
Dave
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:22:06 +0200 pruest@pop.dplanet.ch writes:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> when I replaced all 5 (not 6) terminal sigmas by the archaic digamma
> with the value 6 instead of 200, the result was way off: 33...
> instead
> of 2718... But Iain Strachan suggested instead to add the final
> diphthong iota to the end of ARCHE. This did it, and the relative
> deviation (delta e)/e became 10^-5 as indicated by Iain.
>
> Peter
>
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