Greek-english New Testament, Nestle-aland With Revised Standard Version English Text (Ancient Greek Edition) Imitation Leather – July 1, 2006

Ancient Greek Edition by Erwin Nestle (Editor), B. Aland (Editor), K. Aland (Editor)

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The leading edition of the original text of the New Testament, this scholarly edition is designed for extensive research, textual criticism, and other academic studies.

In keeping with the goals of serious and advanced New Testament scholars, the revised critical apparatus shows a nearly exhaustive list of variants but includes only the most significant witnesses for each variant. The Greek text has paragraph and section breaks. Cross references in the margins are extensive and include synoptic parallels. Five appendices offer in-depth information for further understanding of passages.

The introduction appears in both English and German. Text, notes, and critical apparatus appear in a clear font throughout the volume.

This helpful edition presents the Greek and English text on facing pages. The English text is in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hendrickson Pub; Bilingual edition (July 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ Ancient Greek
Imitation Leather ‏ : ‎ 779 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598561766
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598561760
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches

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Peter A. Papoutsis

Excellent English Translation, Great Critical Text

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2007

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When I received a Copy of the Greek-English Greek New Testament based on the 27th Edition of the Greek New Testament text I was blown away with the amount of scholarship in this book. First, it imployes the Revised Standard Version English translation of the New Testament (2nd revised edition), which I grew up on and greatly enjoy, and second they employ a beautiful Greek Text, with all the variant readings from most, if not all, the known GNT texts in existence which is wonderful for comparison and a truly in depth study of the text. One can use this book for translation purposes as well as for personal study. The Greek text allows you to see if the RSV is doing justice to the Greek as well as allowing you to read the Greek text on your own without the RSV and to create an English translation of your own choice. Overall this a wonderful book that will provide many years of enjoyment and serious study.

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Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021

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The print is small so get your reading glasses out. Exactly what I wanted. Beware Protestants it's not your KJV.

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Allen Victor Garaffa

Impressive scholarship

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2008

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I am totally overwhelmed with this volume. Equally impressed, and thankful, for the additions to the Greek text. It is an excellent buy for the informed student. For the intermediate student of the Greek New Testament I would suggest a companion, Greek-English Lexicon, by your side. However, my own opinion: it is not a volume for the beginner. The condition upon receipt was excellent and it arrived before the promised date. Another thank-you for Amazon and its book-sellers.
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gbruceg

gbruceg review of the Greek-English NT Bible

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2011

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I like the way the book lies open when reading, and the text goes by rather quickly because of it. I would like to see more space and blank pages for note taking. Overall I recommend the book.

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Markos

lots of nice features but NET diglot may be a better choice

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2007

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First one has to get over the prejudice against diglots and other NT texts with aides. I was taught old school that you used an "unmarked" text and even a dictionary in the back was cheating. But the better my Greek becomes, the more convinced I am that reading an unmarked text is a waste of time because it does nothing to IMPROVE your greek. So your choice, if you want to do "arm chair Greek," (that is not having to have two books open at once) is a diglot or Zondervan's Reader's Greek New Testament which has all the rare words in footnotes. Both of these, I suppose, could be abused, but we are not talking interlinears here. I recommend a diglot AND the Reader's Greek NT (a revised edition is on its way.) The Reader's Greek NT will help you in vocabulary acquisition and a diglot is great because no matter how good your Greek is, it is a good idea to check your mental translation against the experts. I find that I still misconstrue a lot of the text and need to check my work.

As to this book, the font used here is a good one; Nestle Alland is probably the most pleasing on the eye, better than UBS 4 which tends towards italics, MUCH better than the horrible italicized font on Reader's Greek first edition. (Hopefully the revised edition will have a better font.) The size of this font is okay, a little smaller I think than UBS 3, but the size of this book is nice because it is big enough to read clearly and small enough to carry around. The NET diglot has a much larger font and I would consider this in making a decision. A large font makes reading the Greek NT MUCH more enjoyable, but the NET size is hard to carry around, so there is a trade off. It should be pointed out that in both books, much space is wasted on the page, better layout could produce a LARGER type with a SMALLER book.

The criticial aparatus used here is pretty awful. UBS is much more user friendly. NA is virtually impossible to decode, with the variants themselves abbreviated and without accents, and the symbols used mar the text a bit. The NET diglot uses the identical apparatus and text, and as far as I know UBS does not make a diglot, so again there are trade offs.

The translation used here, RSV, is a fine overall translation but a more literal one would have been much more helpful, e.g. NASB or even a literal "crib" written for just such a text. Often a literal or near literal translation is the best grammatical commentary on a text, and RSV is wanting in this again and again. This is not the place to critique this translation, but I would say that after comparing RSV to the Greek while reading this, one has to conclude that the RSV is far too free. Now, mitigating against this in this book is a wonderful feature where variant English readings from the KJV and the old ASV are given. These are very helpful in unpacking the Greek, which raises the question why one has to use centuries old translations to figure out the Greek. I think one will have MORE respect for KJV and ASV after using this text. However, the readings are limited, often a difficult Greek passage will only have a RSV reading which is really a paraphrase, helping you, I suppose, discover what the text MAY mean, but not what it SAYS. This text also has the very annoying element of often having the English variants on the next page instead of the facing page. Still, this feature is very nice to have.

So, overall I would recommend this diglot especially if you are on a limited budget and you want a smaller text. However, I think I would pay the extra money and get the NET diglot. (See my review of that work.) Actually, I would get them both.

The cover on this book, as on most UBS and NA stuff, is cheap and the binding here is known to fall apart. That is another reason to look into the NET diglot.

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Juanjo

The NA27 Greek New Testament

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2012

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I was looking forward to owning this book so that I would be able to compare the Textus Receptus based New Testaments with the Critic Text based New Testaments, because the former are mostly of XII century and the latter are of IV-V century. And this is a great diference in the timeline. I am grateful to have this New Testament.

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T. Hromowyk

Bought the book for my son.

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2010

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My son is in the ministry. He needed the book for studies and loves it. Thanks.

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2014

I love this Bible. Had in college and great price

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