[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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