nomina sacra bibliography

[Steven Avery]

b-Greek
Nomina Sacra (2011)
https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/viewtopic.php?t=226

And not surprisingly, P. Comfort doesn't discuss the Nomen Sacrum for David, for as far as I can recall, Codex Sinaiticus is the earliest manuscript to use the Nomen Sacrum for David. Although I don't know for the pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha Greek NT Literature, which also used the Nomina Sacra, as did manuscripts containing writings from the ECF (an early manuscript containing Irenaeus' "Against Heresies" contains the Nomen Sacrum [O]XΣ[/O].

(Codex Sinaiticus is first to have Saviour as a NS, iirc),

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http://textus-receptus.com/wiki/Nomina_sacra

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C. H. Roberts, Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. London, 1979.

A. H. R. E. Paap, Nomina Sacra in the Greek Papyri of the First Five Centuries A. D.: The Sources and some Deductions, Leiden 1959.
, Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava VIII (Leiden 1959).

J. O’Callaghan, “Nomina Sacra” in papyris Graecis saeculi III neotestamentariis, Rome 1970.

S. Brown, “Concerning the Origin of the Nomina Sacra”, Studia Papyrologica 9 (1970), 7–19.

Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible, 36–37.

Philip Comfort
"Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism" Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, pp. 199-253.

Philip Comfort and David Barett. Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (1999)

Larry Hurtado's blog
http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/ ,
The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins, Cambridge 2006, pp. 95-134. Chapter 3

Gregory Paulson

Linssen, Martijn

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[Steven Avery]

Larry Hurtado also notes (TECA, pp. 114) the fact that the Epistle of Barnabas talks about Jesus' name being noted as represented by ΙΗ (a Nomen Sacrum used in several manuscripts), and of course noting it's numerical value of 18, and therefore seeing it as a reference to the 318 servants who aided Abraham in Genesis 14:14. Here is the text from EoB, 9:8:

For it says, "And Abraham circumcised from his household eighteen men and three hundred." What then was the knowledge that was given to him? Notice that he first mentions the eighteen, and after a pause the three hundred. The eighteen is I (=ten) and H (=8) -- you have Jesus -- and because the cross was destined to have grace in the T he says "and three hundred." So he indicates Jesus in the two letters and the cross in the other.

The Epistle of Barnabas (translation Kirsopp Lake)

The Epistle of Barnabas (translation Kirsopp Lake). On Early Christian Writings.

www.earlychristianwritings.com

 

[Steven Avery]

I personally think that Philip Comfort's main reasons for the Nomina Sacra are perhaps more likely: (EtM, pp.206-254, although only the second paragraph is quoted below)
In my estimation, the nomina sacra originated for one of two reasons: (1) a scribe or scribes (whether Jewish Christian or Gentile Christian) created a nomen sacrum form for kurios (Lord), reflecting knowledge of and purposeful distinction from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, YHWH; or (2) a scribe or scribes (whether Jewish Christian or Gentile Christian) created a nomen sacrum form for kurios (Lord), reflecting knowledge of and purposeful distinction from the presence of kurios in hellenistic literature as describing a particular god or Ceasar. In the second option, the creation of the nomen sacrum could have also been for theos for the same reasons.