What does this symbol mean? IC XC

Richard Milbrandt
Richard Milbrandt Member Posts: 34 ✭✭
edited November 20 in English Forum

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,414 ✭✭✭

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram 

    (eastern church)

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick Member, MVP Posts: 15,850 ✭✭✭

    Richard, 

    I think Denise is right. It means Jesus Christ (iesus christos) - old manucripts used the first and last letter of a name of god and a dash over it (such as ts for theos). Here you have iota and closing sigma (s) for iesus=Jesus and Chi - the Ch of christ - and again closing sigma (s) for christos=Christ with a tilde symbol standing over both to tell it's an abbreviation.

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • Donnie Hale
    Donnie Hale Member Posts: 2,036
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1029351#Comment_1029351

    The technical name for those is "nomina sacra". It's a fascinating apologetic point for which books are canonical.

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