[B-Greek] Re: B-Greek Digest, Vol 9, Issue 29

Raymond Allan Johnson rjohns80 at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 30 14:35:30 EDT 2003


My bet would be no time soon.

Philip Comfort, in his book, suggested that new editions are based upon 
collations of new MSS data, and - since the last edition is only about ten 
years old ...

Aland, Black, Metzger, Wikren, 1966. Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Bruce 
Metzger, Allen Wikren, The Greek New Testament. Stuttgart: United Bible 
Societies, 1966; 2nd ed. 1968 (for which Carlo Martini was added to the 
editorial committee); 3rd ed. 1975 (corrected printing, 1983); 4th ed. 1993 
(editors Barbara Aland, Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo Martini, 
Bruce Metzger).

The publisher of this text, United Bible Societies (UBS), is an association 
of Bible societies from five countries: The American Bible Society, The 
National Bible Society of Scotland, the Württemberg Bible Institute (now 
called the German Bible Society), the Netherlands Bible Society, and the 
British and Foreign Bible Society. The association was created in 1955 for 
the purpose of producing this text, and it now manages international Bible 
publication and distribution operations which in the past had been performed 
chiefly by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The UBS edition was designed to meet the practical needs of translators 
sponsored by the member Bible societies, and so its apparatus presents the 
various readings of the manuscripts only in places where a choice between 
certain well-attested readings will have an important affect upon 
translation. For each of these places the reading of the text is graded A, 
B, C, or D according to whether the reading was adopted by the editors with 
certainty, near certainty, with difficulty, or with great difficulty. For 
the convenience of translators a punctuation apparatus is given below the 
textual apparatus, showing how the text is punctuated in several other texts 
and versions. Beneath that, cross-references are given together with 
specification of the words and phrases to which they refer. The text is set 
in paragraphs and larger sections, and supplied with section headings in 
English.

The text of the first edition (1966) was a tentative revision of the text of 
Nestle 1927. A second edition with a few important changes appeared in 1968 
(see Aland Black Metzger Wikren Martini 1968). In 1975 the third edition 
presented a substantially different text (see Aland Black Metzger Wikren 
Martini 1975), which was repeated without change in the fourth edition 
(1993).

http://www.bible-researcher.com/bib-a.html

Also: might poke around at the UBS web site - I didn't find anything 
http://www.biblesociety.org/; http://www.biblesociety.org/history.htm


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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:33:36 -0400
From: "Barry W. Hickey" <bhickey at sun-spot.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] Next Edition of the GNT
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Is anyone aware of a schedule as to when the next edition of the GNT will be
published (either UBS5 or NA28)?

Sincerely,

Barry W. Hickey

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