The Bible I ended up with...

Eric Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Thu Oct 21 00:49:33 EDT 1999


The last few times I was at the Dallas Theological Seminary bookstore, they 
had quite nicely lowered the prices of their Greek New Testaments (UBS4 and 
NA27) to ... the exact same prices in the ABS catalog - e.g., $27.99 (UBS4 
with Greek-English dictionary), I believe. And ... since DTS doesn't charge 
tax on Bibles and Commentaries, it's actually cheaper than ordering from 
ABS, since there's no handling or postage charge, just your shoewear or gas 
or bus fare to get there.

And ... don't feel bad about getting UBS4 without all the "extras" that 
were mentioned - Eusebius' stuff, etc. UBS4 has cross-references, and, if 
you get Metzger's Textual Commentary (again, at DTS bookstore, for the same 
price as ordering from ABS - $21.00 or so), it will comment on all the 
variants in UBS4 - something you can't get for NA27 - you have to read 
Metzger's Textual Transmission book or the Aland's book to get an idea 
which manuscripts and variants have the best support, etc. (I have both 
GNTs myself, though - and you will, too, someday - or NA28/UBS5.)

On 10/20/99, ""N & RJ Hanscamp" <hanscamps at paradise.net.nz>" wrote:
> <Much snipped>
> 
> So after quite a bit of time holding them, looking
> >at them wishing I could read them, and flipping through them to see what
> >extra stuff they might have, I walked out with a brand new USB4 Greek
> >Bible.  I figured that if I got to be as good as you guys, I just might go
> >back and buy the other one because it might have some useful information
> >that I might want to know later on.  But for now, I am completely happy
> >with mine...even though the cover is in English...
> 
> 
> Greetings from one Methodist place to another....
> 
> 
> BTW what did you pay for your new UBS4 GNT?
> 
> Nigel
> Nigel Hanscamp
> Trinity Methodist Theological College
> Auckland Consortium of Theological Education, New Zealand
> Email: hanscamps at paradise.net.nz



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