[B-Greek] New UBS text announced
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 25 09:58:18 EDT 2007
On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:44 AM, James Spinti wrote:
> Thought listers might find this of interest, I just heard about it
> last
> night:
>
> UBS Greek New Testament
> A Reader's Edition
> Edited by Barbara Aland and Barclay M., Jr. Newman
> Hendrickson Publishers, Forthcoming January 2008
> 732 pages, English and Greek
> Flexible casebound
> ISBN: 1-59856-285-1
> ISBN13: 978-1-59856-285-9
> List Price: $69.95
> Your Price: $48.90
> http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~UBSGREEKN
>
> Description:
> The Reader's Edition combines the Bible text of the latest edition
> of the UBS4 Greek New Testament, edited by Barbara Aland, et. al.,
> with
> an Onpage Greek-English Dictionary, compiled by Barclay M. Newman.
>
> Features
> * On-page Dictionary providing translations of all vocabulary
> items
> occurring 30 times or less in the New Testament at the bottom of each
> page
PLEASE SAY IT ISN'T SO! This is just about the most useless NT Greek-
English dictionary there is -- I haven't seen anything that is so
tightly restricted to a minimal number of glosses. This is evidently
for the "reader" with minimal expectations and requirements regarding
understanding of the Greek text.
> * Translations given according to context
> * Definitions of idiomatic word combinations
> * Grammatical analysis of all difficult verb forms
> * Reader-friendly layout enabling the reader to transfer easily
> from
> text to dictionary and vice versa
> * An appendix providing translations of all vocabulary items
> occurring more than 30 times in the New Testament
> * Including the maps from the UBS Greek New Testament
>
> So, it appears to be a combination of Zerwick's "A Grammatical
> Analysis
> Greek of the Greek New Testament" ( although a bit abbreviated),
> Zondervan's "Reader's Greek New Testament" and the UBS text. I suspect
> there will be page proofs at AAR/SBL in November.
>
> I doubt that professors will allow it in class :)
>
> James
>
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)
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