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Title: The Greek New Testament by Kurt Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, B. Aland ISBN: 3-438-05110-9 Publisher: American Bible Society Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Important Variant Readings Missing
Comment: The apparatus of this edition lacks all variant readings which are important for someone interested in stylistic problems. The codex Alexandrinus on which this edition is heavily based is very much an atticised version of the New Testament. However, there are many manuscripts that are written in a more koine style. Like all the UBS editions this edition underestimates the importance of philological research as has been done, for instance, by Sturz and other philogists. Of course, style has never been a preoccupation of students of christianity.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pastor / Student Greek New Testament
Comment: Martin Luther said the following on the importance of the original languages: "Without languages we could not have received the gospel. Languages are the scabbard that contains the sword of the Spirit; they are the casket which contains the priceless jewels of antique thought; they are the vessel that holds the wine; and as the gospel says, they are the baskets in which the loaves and fishes are kept to feed the multitude." If the languages do not remain then the Gospel will perish!
It is necessary to learn the original languages of the Old and New Testaments. This Fourth edition of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament is the tool, which pastors and students need to learn and maintain competency in Koine Greek. It is an excellent edition of the Greek New Testament, which allows for exegetical study of the New Testament.
The introduction is a helpful foundation for using this text. It provides a brief overview of the manuscripts used, abbreviations, and a select bibliography for further research. The textual apparatus (stuff at the bottom of the page) is not as detailed as the NA27 (Nestle-Aland 27th edition), but it is generally enough for the beginning-intermediate student and the pastor. Variant readings, punctuation apparatus, and cross-references are all included in the apparatus at the bottom of the page. The Synoptic Gospels have parallel segments listed above each section and there are subject titles, which seek to divide the passage into various trains of thought.
In the back there is an index of quotations, an index of allusions and verbal parallels, and a list of the principal manuscripts cited in the textual apparatus. There is also a map index provided for the color map displayed on the very last two pages. Make sure to buy the edition, which includes Barclay Newman's A Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament in the back. This dictionary can also be purchased separately but it is helpful to have at hand all in one book.
Overall this is a good edition to keep close at hand. However it is a tool, which again is rendered ineffective unless it is used. May such tools provide the foundation for our understanding of the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is his word to us. It is the message of hope and life - it is the wisdom of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May we seek to study it, to understand it, and to hide it in our hearts that we may glorify him.
Rating: 4
Summary: not quite up to the mark
Comment: The Aland edition of the Greek New Testament (intended for translators, they say) is wide off the mark. This does not apply to the text itself (it is the Nestle-Aland 27th ed., and it's the best we can have) but to the critical apparatus offered.
First of all, very few textual variants are chosen (and arbitrarily so), so that you may miss important evidence even for some crucial points. Of course, of these few variants we are told how all the Coptic versions stand, and what Athanasius (remember him?) quoted about. If the variants are chosen haphazardly, what is the point of all this, specially for translators?
The third edition had a most elegant, big greek typeface, a delight to the eyes. In the fourth one, we've lost even that.
So, stand by (or even switch to) the Nestle-Aland 27th ed., just in greek or bilingual. The apparatus, the introduction and the appendixes make it a truly scientific feat!
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Title: Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce ISBN: 0310250870 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.99 |
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Title: Basics of Biblical Greek: Workbook by William D. Mounce ISBN: 0310250862 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament by Warren C. Trenchard ISBN: 0310226953 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek by Bruce Manning Metzger ISBN: 0801021804 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature by William Arndt, Walter Bauer, Frederick W. Danker ISBN: 0226039331 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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