[B-Greek] Introduction
Michael G. Oravecz
moravecz at praxtech.com
Tue Oct 7 01:31:22 EDT 2003
Garet wrote:
>> October 06, 2003 4:48 PM
>> Is there any other Greek New Testament that is
>> used by Greek scholars other than the UBS?
There are (at least) two main versions of the Greek New Testament used by
scholars.
1) The Alexandrian texttype. This is the text in the UBS 4th edition and the
Nestle-Aland 27th edition. The UBS and N-A editions now provide the same
text, but each has its own critical apparatus. This is an eclectic version
of the New Testament put together by a group of scholars based on their text
critical view of the known manuscripts. The UBS and N-A editions, although
eclectic, are largely considered to represent the Alexandrian texttype. The
UBS and N-A New Testament is influenced by Westcott and Hort (1881).
2) The Byzantine/Majority texttype. This text is largely based on the Greek
New Testament manuscripts used in the medieval Byzantine Empire (Eastern
Roman Empire) and in the commonwealth regions which were strongly influenced
by Byzantine culture. (The Slavic regions being one of the largest of such
commonwealth regions.) There are several very similar but not identical
versions of this text:
Recent scholarship has provided :
- Byzantine/Majority textform by Robinson and Pierpont, 1991
- Majority text by Hodges and Farstad, 1985
Somewhat older scholarship has provided (these are probably the same, but I
am not certain):
- The approved text of the Patriarch of Constantinople, published first in
1904 by B. Antoniades
- the Original Patriarch text as it is used by the Greek Orthodox Church
The Original Patriarchal text can be downloaded in MS Word format from the
following sites:
http://kainh.homestead.com/English.html
http://kainh.homestead.com/Greek.html
The various versions of the Received Text (Textus Receptus) are similar to
the Byzantine/Majority text since the Received Text was based on Byzantine
Greek manuscripts. The Received Text is used for historical scholarship
purposes.
Other texttypes used in current scholarship include the Western and
Caesarean.
Best wishes,
Mike Oravecz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garret" <garret at shaw.ca>
To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Introduction
> Hi all,
> My name is Garret Parsons and I just subscribed to this group.
> I am training to become a Pastor, taking the "Certificate in Ministry"
> course at Regent Collage (Vancouver BC, Canada). I have been an artist for
> 30 years, so this is quite a change for me.
>
> I was surprised that learning Greek is not a requirement anymore, even
> though the collage does express that it would be helpful at least to
> understand the alphabet. I find Greek to be fascinating and I am more
> comfortable with Greek than English. ;-). I have bought quite a few books
on
> learning Greek and have bought the Greek New Testament, UBS (Kurt Aland)
> forth addition.
>
> I will most likely just lurk most of the time since my Greek is not at the
> caliber that is obvious here, but I do have one question.
>
> Is there any other Greek New Testament that is used by Greek scholars
other
> than the UBS? Just interested.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Garret
>
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