[B-Greek] Analysis of the SBL GNT in the Gospels

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 6 09:10:23 EDT 2010


Thanks, Wieland, for the review.  Very helpful in giving us a sense of what the 
SBLGNT is and is not.

Textual criticism per se is not within the bounds of the list, but what IS at 
the very heart of this list is how one reads the Greek NT, and with what.  I am 
very curious to see how the SBLGNT, particularly the print edition, catches on.  
It's not a question of NA 28 RIP.  It's not a question of whether it will 
replace the UBS/NA/Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft products.  I personally cannot 
imagine owning less than say, four print copies of the GNT

http://www.amazon.com/the-Four-Best-Greek-New-Testaments/lm/R1RWHATIQHGH8H/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full


and so the question is whether SBLGNT can crack the top five.  The question is 
whether this is a good FIRST GNT for people to have.  What Holmes' apparatus 
does is draw attention to, in a more user friendly way, just how complicated on 
the one hand and not-really-all-that-consequential on the other hand is the 
problem of establishing the GNT text.  If students really want to get into the 
heart of darkness of any given reading, they need to do on one-line search, 
where they will find people like Holmes and Wieland very helpful. (But my advice 
for textual criticism?  "Don't get out of the boat.  Never get out of the 
boat!"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kT8rTsaHI4 )  For a text that, as 
Wieland says, one can read in bed or on the bus, the question then turns on the 
external features of the SBLGNT.  So, for those who have seen it, I have some 
questions.

What are itσ exact dimensions?  What is a "kivar cover"?  How large is the 
font?  I assume it does not include a dictionary.  Since the apparatus is 
relatively small, the book should be extra light weight.  Is it?  Is it 
flexible?  Does it lay flat when open?  My UBS 3, which I don't use any more 
because of the duct tape and missing pages, was about as durable as a Nepali 
prayer flag.  Are we sure the SBLGNT will hold up any better?

Maybe someone who has the book or will get it at the SBL meeting in Atlanta can 
take some pictures of it and share them.

They say that the ratio of Greek New Testaments to New Testament Greek scholars 
is five to four.  That's a joke, of course, but it won't be funny in few years, 
thanks to technology, on-demand printing, gracious moves to release works into 
the public domain and the model that Mike Holmes and Rick Brannan have presented 
us with in this great effort.  ευγε φιλοι!   EUGE FILOI!       




 Mark L
Φωσφορος 


FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: Wieland Willker <wie at uni-bremen.de>
To: textualcriticism at yahoogroups.com
Cc: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 3:25:50 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Analysis of the SBL GNT in the Gospels

I have checked Mike Holmes' SBL text in the Gospels now. 

This is the shortest GNT ever! 

It is 465 words shorter than NA. Even 126 words shorter than WH! 

- Good to see he is getting rid of (almost) all those single brackets. 

- Holmes is accepting 6 Western non-interpolations. 

- There are about 230 differences to NA in the Gospels. Of these, Holmes
follows WH about 48% of the time and the Byzantine text about 44%. 



Read my full review here:

http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/texte/SBL-GNT-Analysis.pdf





Best wishes

    Wieland

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Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany

http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie

Textcritical commentary:

http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/



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