[B-Greek] Very interesting GNT, _A Readers Greek New Testament_

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 27 16:45:24 EDT 2004


I think the RGNT (it's actually just a printed edition of the e-text that Kohlenberger and 
Goodrick developed several years ago) was created by a word-by-word or phrase-by-
phrase comparison of the NIV with UBS4/3corrected / NA27/26 (the same text in all 
cases), and wherever the NIV text seemed to diverge from the UBS text, K&G 
reconstructed the Greek text the NIV seemed to use (I assume from the list of UBS or 
NA variants).
 
Whoever has their RGNT can find the facts in the intro to the book and correct anything I 
say here.
 
As I recall and noted in an earlier post, at 231(?) places the text of the NIV translation 
points to a different Greek reading than UBS4/NA27, and the RGNT notes these in its 
footnotes, and prints the UBS4 Greek text in the footnote. So, readers of the RGNT will 
still have the UBS4 text to read from -- if they choose to read the footnotes instead of the 
text in these 231 instances.
 
My main gripes or misgivings about it have to do with the font, the page layout, and the 
"whiteness" and less-than-ideal opaqueness of the paper -- i.e., technical issues with 
this edition moreso than with the text. It's a lightweight, easy-to-pack/carry/hold/read 
edition of the GNT which, at $18 or $19, is worth buying, imo, to practice one's Greek 
reading with. Too bad it's not pocketsize, though.



Eric S. Weiss
http://www.geocities.com/papaweiss1/index.htm


		
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