[B-Greek] What NT Bible do you recommend for a newcomer?

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Fri May 12 15:41:20 EDT 2006


Allow me to correct the link, the one given originally will expire in
about 4 hours:
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~BIBLIASAC

If you want to stay below $40, you will have a tough time. 

If he is going to be serious, you will want to get him a text with what
is called an apparatus criticus or critical apparatus. What it does is
list the variant readings among the manuscripts. Therefore, you will
want one of the texts produced by the German Bible Society.

For the Hebrew Bible:
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Paperback Edition
Edited by K. Elliger and W. Rudolph
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, 2001
lxxi + 1574 pages, Hebrew, Paper
ISBN: 3438052229
List Price: $34.99 

Or, to avoid paper (which I recommend):
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Small format
Edited by K. Elliger and W. Rudolph
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, 1987
lvii + 1574 pages, Hebrew, Cloth
ISBN: 3438052199
List Price: $69.99

For the Greek New Testament most people like the UBS text, of which
there are two forms, one without and one with a dictionary:
Greek New Testament, updated to include textual variants from Papyri
98-116 (no dictionary)
4th revised edition
Edited by Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland
American Bible Society, 2002
lxii + 918 pages, Greek, Cloth
ISBN: 3438051109
List Price: $43.99

Greek New Testament with Dictionary
4th revised edition
by Kurt Aland
United Bible Societies, 1993
lxii + 926 + 203 pages, Greek, Cloth
ISBN: 3438051133
List Price: $49.99

Some people have been recommending Zondervan's Greek Bible, it does not
have an apparatus and the text is not the UBS/NA one, nor is it the
"Majority Text":

A Reader's Greek New Testament
Edited by Richard Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski
Zondervan Publishing Company, 2004
592 pages, English and Greek
Burgundy Leather, 6 x 9
ISBN: 0310248884
List Price: $29.99

There is vocabulary along the bottom of each page, a beginner will still
need a dictionary/lexicon. It is on "bible paper" which means the paper
is thinner than the normal Greek text. If he continues in college, they
won't let him use it, but it might be a good starter text.

Of course, all the list prices are sold cheaper on-line -- and I would
love it if you were to choose Eisenbrauns :) 

If you need any other information, feel free to post to the list. They
are very helpful.

Sincerely,
James
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Eisenbrauns, Good books for over 30 years
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> gfsomsel at juno.com
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: hillsmith2000 at yahoo.com
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What NT Bible do you recommend for a newcomer?
> 
> 
> Since you want both the Greek and the Hebrew, I would suggest 
> that you get the _Biblia Sacra Utriusque Testamenti_.  You 
> can expect, however, to spend considerably more than the 
> $40.00 you mentioned.  Here's the best price I found at the moment.
> https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_1SU0VTMQ9.HTM
> 
> 
> george
> gfsomsel
> _________
> 
> -- Nancy Hill <hillsmith2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there...
> 
> My son is a homeschooled high school senior who
> is just starting to study the ancient biblical
> versions of the Bible. He is interested in both
> the Old Testament Hebrew and the New Testament
> Greek.
> 
> Unfortunately, our search for a Bible in those
> languages is confusing. A search on amazon.com
> yields lots of different choices, but we don't
> know which one would be best. I'd like to find
> something affordable (I'm thinking $40).
> 
> I'm hoping that you might have a recommendation
> for a Bible that has both languages or one that
> is the New Testament Greek by itself (we have
> been able to find lots of versions of the Old
> Testament in Hebrew so that is not a problem).
> 
> If you were just starting out and had zero
> knowledge of ancient Greek, which NT Bible would
> you get?
> 
> Thanks very much for your help.
> 
> Nancy Hill
> Ventura, California
> 805-760-8588
> 
> P.S. He'd also love to connect with other local
> scholars who are studying this material.
> 
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