[B-Greek] Re: UBS4th Edition printings

N.E.Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Wed Jun 23 10:04:13 EDT 2004


> 
> From: "Wilson Hines" <wilsonhines at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2004/06/23 Wed AM 09:29:37 EDT
> To: "Wieland Willker" <willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de>
> CC: b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Re: UBS4th Edition printings
> 
> Also...can you explain this statement in a more detailed method?
> 
> "you should consider buying the Nestle-Aland, which has a more
> representative apparatus "

The UBS text limits its textual apparatus to textual variants which may have real implications for the meaning of the text (the UBS was originally designed for translators working to put the Bible into language groups which to that point had not had the Bible).

The N-A apparatus has a more complete list of variants, so that the the reader can have some sense of the textual history of a given passage.  Even that is only the beginning of wisdom, however, as a complete apparatus would be far too bulky for anyone to carry to class or read on the bus (!), so that it is restricted to what the editors feel are the most important variants.


N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Faculty-guy, CUTS
Philadelphia, PA




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