[B-Greek] Westcott-Hort GNT

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Thu Apr 17 11:52:56 EDT 2008


If you are going to go with a Reader's GNT, you definitely want the UBS
one. Zondervan has tried twice to get it right, and failed both times.
Rick Mansfield has a good review of both of them:
http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/thislamp/files/20071129_rgnt2_hands_o
n_review.html
 
http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/thislamp/files/20071210_ubsre_review.
html

He is experiencing difficulties with his web site, so those links might
not go directly to them. His search is definitely not working. 

James
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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 Cory Taylor
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:32 AM
To: Mark Lightman
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Westcott-Hort GNT

For a reader's GNT, I'd go with the UBS4 reader's edition. It's about
$45 or
so, but its font is more legible than either of Zondervan's versions,
the
definitions are in columns versus Zondervan's disorganized list, and it
parses hard verbs, which makes casual reading or reading along at church
(presuming you're not the pastor or teacher...haha) without the benefit
of a
standalone parsing aide much easier.

Cory Taylor

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> This text has some nice features, but you should
>  get it for your fifth or sixth Greek NT, not your second.
>  It has a nice font, the dictionary in the back is great,
>  and its text is largely unmarred by markings, but it
>  does not really have a textual apparatus.  It compares
>  its readings to NA 27 (where there are very few differences)
>  and to the Pierpont/Robinson text (that is essentially
>  the Byzantine Majority text) which is nice to have, but
>  after UBS 4 you want a more complete textual appartus.
>  To me clearly the best GNT available is the NET NA 27 diglot,
>  which has the full textual apparatus plus a facing translation
>  plus some great translation and textual notes, plus it is
>  large print.  It costs a lot more than Westcott-Hort but it
>  is worth it.  Also, since this new reissue of Westcott-Hort
>  does not give you any more of a textual apparatus, I would
>  consider a Reader's Edition (Zondervan's first edition is the
>  best for the money) first.  But THEN I would get the WH reissue.
> Steve Raine <sp1raine at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Hi folks--
>
> Appreciate opinions on reissue of Westcott-Hort GNT.
> Currently using UBS4.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Raine
>
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