Re: re aleph beit

suzmccarth wrote:

>
> Peter Kirk just emailed me that verse 41 in Psalm 118 has a digamma
> at the beginning to indicate that it is the 6th section in the
> psalm, the section beginning with the Hebrew letter 'vav',
> transliterated into Greek as 'ouau'.
>
> However, online editions of the Septuagint variously display either
> a variant of omega or the letter v for the digamma. So the
> equivalence should be between the Greek digamma and Hebrew vav, not
> the omega and vav.

This peculiar message is headed "re aleph beit." Is it a followup to a
message I didn't receive?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...