[B-Greek] UBS Reader's Edition GNT
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Nov 17 04:58:28 EST 2007
On Nov 17, 2007, at 2:41 AM, James Spinti wrote:
> The UBS Reader's Edition has been released; I saw it this afternoon
> at the ABS booth here at AAR/SBL and was able to take a screen shot
> of a page. You can see it on my blog:
> http://anebooks.blogspot.com/2007/11/ubs-readers-edition.html
>
> Sorry, Carl, but they use Barclay Newman's dictionary for their
> glosses. The layout is clean and seems easy to use, so if you are
> interested in a nice "cheater" text, this might be one for you.
What a pity! I guess we could hardly expect otherwise, since the
Newman glossary is commonly called "the UBS Lexicon" and has been
bound with UBS editions or sold to accompany them. Your very nice
photo reveals that it is, in fact, one tiny step shy of a full
interlinear -- one has to go to a footnote on the same page rather
than immediately under a Greek word for the minimal parsing info about
each word --; and what's more, Newman's two- or three-word glossary is
reduced to a one-word English gloss for each Greek word. It's another
of these items that has been produced as a commercial response to a
demand for quick "access" to the Greek NT by people with little or no
competence in Greek. I don't doubt it will sell very well!
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list