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

Kent D. Clarke kentdclarke at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 30 02:43:54 EDT 2004


Warm Greetings B-Greekers:

My good colleague Scot Bekker and Myself are actually in the midst of
evaluating all 231 variations between the UBS4 text and the Reader's Greek
New Testament. There are some interesting decisions being made here. As
well, we are very interested (shall I say a little cynically) in the
so-called "reverse engineering" taking place in the Reader's Greek New
Testament. Some of the stylistic and format issues such as the font and
provision of glosses are really only "cosmetic" and secondary concerns; but
some of the textual decisions made behind the "underlying text" are
intriguing (not that a thoughtful doubting of some variants represented in
the UBS tradition is anything new). Anyway, we are hoping to produce an
extended review of the work over the next several months or so. Like others
on the list (and on TC-List), I too am surprised by the lack of discussion
this has produced. It is actually saying something very significant about
the translation, linguistic and textual philosophy behind this NIV text. I
will pass on any results as our little review progresses.

Kindest Regards;

Kent

Kent D. Clarke (Ph.D. Bristol)
Assistant Professor
Seal Kap House
Trinity Western University
7600 Glover Road
Langley, BC
Canada


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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Narkinsky
Sent: April 27, 2004 3:37 PM
To: Eric Weiss
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Very interesting GNT, _A Readers Greek New Testament_


On Apr 27, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Eric Weiss wrote:

>
> 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.

Is anybody aware of whether each of those 231 instances represents a 
"split opinion" or D reading in the UBS?  Has anyone come across one 
that's very questionable yet?

Patrick

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