It is relevant to note that there is no real doubt that the divine name was accorded special treatment well before NT times (Hong has recently argues that this goes back further than previously thought, cf, JSOT 37/4, but the use of special notations and archaic scripts all point to this). The presupposition that an original and uncorrupted LXX included the tetragrammaton in Hebrew script is by no means certain (cf. A. Pietersma, âKyrios or Tetragram: A Renewed Quest for the Original LXXâ who argues that those manuscripts which include the Hebrew tetragram reflect a later archaizing process).
Consequently any claim that the NT text we have is corrupt because it consistently employs kurios in place of the tetragram lacks any substantial evidence. Regards, Martin Shields.
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