[B-Greek] critical notes
Henry T. Carmichael
carmih at bigfoot.com
Wed Nov 9 15:10:40 EST 2005
Michael Abernathy wrote:
>Message: 5
>Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:59:58 +0000
>From: mabernathy714 at comcast.net
>Subject: [B-Greek] critical notes
...
>I was speaking with an older preacher yesterday when he commented on
>something his Greek teacher said in 1946. This made me wonder, which
>Greek text was he most likely to use at that time and did it include
>the same kind of critical notation I have avaiable today?
>Sincerely,
>Michael Abernathy
Michael:
I have a copy of the third edition of the Greek Testament, edited by
Eberhard Nestle (published 1906), as well as a copy of Novum Testamentum
Graece, 16th edition, edited by Eberhard Nestle (deceased) and Erwin
Nestle (published 1936). Both have a critical apparatus, but that of
1906 does not use signs in the apparatus. The 1936 edition has many of
the signs still used in the apparatus of the 27th edition (the most
recent one I have). So I conclude that the older teachers and preachers
had available, in their day, the best texts the scholars had yet
produced. Of course, further discoveries and developments have made the
"best" text better (though some question that), yet I am often
pleasantly surprised to find how little things have changed over the
last hundred years.
Yours truly,
Henry Carmichael
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