[B-Greek] GNT "Reader's editions" compared

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Dec 16 07:13:23 EST 2007


For those who really like or want this sort of thing, Rick Brannan  
blogs a detailed comparison of the Zondervan "Reader's Greek New  
Testament" and the German-published "UBS GNT: Reader's Edition." You  
can read it at:

http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ricoblog/2007/12/15/ReadersGreekNewTestamentSmackdown.aspx
or
http://tinyurl.com/2ego5g

For what it's worth, I'd reiterate my sense that the NET/UBS GNT  
diglot (http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2056) is ultimately more  
useful for a serious student of the GNT who wants the comfort" of a  
reasonably good English translation and the utility of translator's  
notes that go far to explain the implications of the translators'  
choices for rendering particular Greek locutions. Of course the diglot  
doesn't have those "glossy glosses" that endeavor to tell you (in one  
word or less, not much more) what the Greek words you don't recognize  
are supposed to mean.

If these little volumes are termed "reader's editions," I wonder who  
the "regular" editions of UBS4 and NA27 are meant for. They certainly  
don't have that special Latin rubric that A.E. Housman (a Latin  
scholar, though less well-known as such than as author of the  
"Shropshire Lad" verses) posted prominently on the title page of his  
scholarly editions of Latin poets (Juvenal, Manilius, Lucan): "in  
editorum usum edidit."

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)




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