[B-Greek] Christian chumash?

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Tue Aug 16 12:16:39 EDT 2005


Ah, whoops, I left off my full signature.  Sorry for the omission.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson

Curtis Hinson wrote:

>I have been discussing this idea with someone and I would like to see it 
>done or know if it exists.
>
>As far as I've been able to tell, there is no true Christian equivilant 
>of the chumashim.  Why not have a type of Synopsis Quattor with a line 
>or two of the Greek text of, say, Mark at the top, and around it use the 
>other gospels as commentary.  Different volumes could do the same thing 
>with other synoptic priorities I suppose.  Now where you'd find talmudic 
>commentary in a Chumash, you could have NT commentary, early fathers, 
>and modern commentators.  Where you'd find the targum, one could have 
>related LXX texts and Peshitta.  There should be a standard format used, 
>and each gospel should get its own font, its own personality so to speak.
>
>Of course it would be nice to have the same sort of format for the 
>entire NT:  texts commenting on each other, related versions, and 
>external commentary showing opposing or varying points of view.  This 
>sort of literature emphasizes the diversity and personalities of the 
>texts in the NT anthology.  The idea is not to harmonize texts that 
>don't harmonize, but to give each its own voice and personality, and 
>also to juxtapose different opinions rather than distilling scholarship 
>into one opinion, or presenting one option as the correct one.
>
>The closest thing to this I've run into is Alford's Greek New 
>Testament.  Alford had a 6-volume set.  Each page has a few lines of 
>critical text.  Next to that are canon references and cross-references.  
>Under this is his apparatus.  This app is interesting because it often 
>notes interesting anomalies in particular manuscripts you might not 
>ordinarily pick up in an app.  Then Alford writes his own commentary 
>where he quotes and reacts to other major scholarship and presents some 
>different interpretive options.  I am proud to own Alford but I really 
>wonder why it hasn't been updated, or why I haven't seen similiar recent 
>works.
>
>Bless the Name
>Curtis
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