[B-Greek] The Reader's GNT
Phillip J. Long
plong at gbcol.edu
Sat Apr 17 11:36:52 EDT 2004
>I have mixed feelings about it.
I have had mine a couple weeks now, I guess, and have used it off and on in
chapels and church. I too find the font annoying, but I can get used to it.
The footnoting of the vocabulary is what really puts me off. I would have
rather had all the vocab for Verse 1 gathered into a section Verse 2 in the
next, etc. without the excessive note numbers in the text itself. Maybe I
was struck by this since I was reading Acts 27, with 235 notes, but the
in-text numbers distract my reading. (I haven't checked, but I assume that
is the most for any chapter in the NT.)
I miss the section headings of the UBS, the parallel passages in the
gospels, and the OT quotations in the margins, etc. The lack of textual
apparatus makes the book hard to reccommend to my students, at least for the
way I teach Greek (third semester has a section on TC). But you can't have
everything, obviously this is not targeted at replacing UBS/NA as the
standard Greek edition, it is a "readers" edition after all.
The lack of a string-bookmark is annoying, I am suprised how much I rely on
one in my other Bibles! SOmehting you don't notice until you don't have
one.
Phillip J. Long
Associate Prof. of New Testament
Grace Bible College
Grand Rapids, MI 49509
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