N-A 21 vs. N-A 26/27

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Wed Sep 4 19:26:54 EDT 2002



In a message dated 9/4/02 12:01:37 PM, eweiss at gte.net writes:

>Can anyone point me to a site or a source of information for TEXT
>differences between Nestle's 21st edition GNT (N-A 21, since this was the
>first edition that Kurt Aland worked on) and N-A 26/27 [which is identical
>textwise with UBS-3 & UBS-3(corrected - just punctuation changes, I
>believe) & UBS-4]?
>
>I am not interested in the critical apparatus, just a listing of passages
>where the text is different, e.g., 2 John 5 and 8 have, respectively, a
>different word order and a different aorist form of ERGAZOMAI.
>
>The interlinear I will likely use for my "Greek for non-Greek students"
>class is the NASB-NIV parallel interlinear or NRSV-NIV parallel
>interlinear. Both use Alfred Marshall's interlinear, which uses N-A 21,
>and I believe the NIV and NASB texts that are printed alongside it in this
>edition are based on UBS-3, so I wanted to be aware of where the parallel
>English texts might be based on a different textual reading than students
>will see in the interlinear.
>
I used the 21st edition edited by D.Erwin Nestle, son of D. Eberhard Nestle. 
"Prof. D. K. Aland-Berlin" is mentioned in the German introduction only and 
seems to have contributed mainly to the apparatus through new collations of 
mss. I do not have subsequent editions with me at home. I have used also the 
23 - 27. I think that in the 23rd and 24th or maybe just in the 25th that the 
dagger is used to indicate any readings in the apparatus that was formerly in 
the text of Nestle. The the Nestle text was constructed was to the take the 
majority readings from the critical editions of the 19th century and print 
those. So wherever two of the three major sources, Tischendorf, Westcott & 
Hort, and B. Weiss (in the first three editions Weymouth r/t Weiss). I think 
the daggers were to indicate differences between the Aland editions and the 
older editions edited by the Nestles. So, if you can get one of the editions 
with daggers, you will see in the notes the differences from the pre-Aland 
editions.

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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