From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61917
Date: 2008-12-06
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
>> I have read religious texts in Cyrillic alphabet written
>> at the end of the XIXth century.
>
>> I'm intrigued by the anaphorics He, His written with a
>> capital letter when they refer to Jesus. I may be wrong
>> but it seems this feature does not exist in western Europe
>> with texts written in French, English, German, etc.
>
> It is customary to capitalize the pronoun 'he' when it
> refers to the Christian god. There are Christians who
> capitalize pronouns referring to Jesus; you can see an
> example of this usage at
> <http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/CGG/ID/2875/Abiding-God.htm>.
>
> It isn't just a Christian usage, by the way. Wiccan usage
> is as varied as Wiccan practice generally, but it is not
> uncommon in Wiccan writing to see 'She' and 'He' when the
> pronouns refer to 'the Goddess' and 'the God'.
>
> Brian
>
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Thank you, M. Scott.
I'm somehow surprised that the so-called "traduction oecuménique de la
Bible" (TOB) does not mention any controversy about the fact it does not add
any capital letter for anaphorics refering to either Jesus or God. There
should be some controversy if there exist divergent traditions about this
feature.
I'm still interested in having some feed-back on Eastern Orthodox traditions
on this.
Arnaud