[B-Greek] text questions and recommendations

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 9 22:23:32 EST 2008


Matthew Blair wrote:
   
  :I received the following texts from one of my priests when he discovered
that I had started the study of Koine Greek:

UBS 3rd edition of the GNT

BDAG, 2nd edition (I think - I don't see the "A" in BDAG, but it is titled:
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian
Literature, and is green and big)

The New Analytical Greek Lexicon (Perschbacher)

An Index to the Revised Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich Greek Lexicon 2nd Edition
(Alsop)

Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (Metzger)

Since I am a beginner (I *just* started verbs in Mounce's BBG), I haven't
really used any of these yet except for the GNT when I am reading aloud for
practice.

My questions:

1) As these are all older texts, is there any value in moving to more recent
editions?

2) If I wanted to pick up the Septaguinta, which text should I buy?

3) Are there any differences between the UBS GNT and the NA(27 or 28?)?

Thanks for your help,

Matthew"

  Dear Matthew:
   
  Your Priest did you well by giving you those books.
  Maybe you should find a Rabbi and tell him you are
  studying Hebrew. :)
   
  UBS 3 is BETTER than UBS 4 since it is essentially
   the same text but has a better,
  less italicized font.  NA 27 has more variant
   readings but they are abbreviated and
  the critical apparatus is very hard to de-code; 
  your UBS 3 is more user friendly and is
  fine.  Metzger's book is great but is the only
   one that I think you would want to update. 
  Get Warren Trenchard's Complete Vocabulary
  Guide to the Greek New Testament, since it does 
  everything Metzger does but
  includes the complete vocab.  People rave
   about Bauer's 3rd Edition; I have his 
  2nd and feel it is really overrated; I use my Thayer's
   just as often, so I would not
  spend the extra money on the 3rd edition which I''m sure is 
  better, but is way overpriced; It would make
  more sense for you to get the Intermediate 
  Liddel and Scott.
   
  I am a big believer in di-glots (not interlinears) so I would 
  get Brenton's LXX.  The
  font is really small but the book is cheap and his
  literal crib translation helps you unpack the
  Greek.
   
  You now have a great Greek NT library and may God bless you in your efforts!
   
  Mark Lightman 

       
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