[B-Greek] New critical GNT from Mike Holmes!

Rick Brannan textgeek+bgreek at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 12:34:02 EDT 2010


Hi Mark.

We just pulled the trigger on http://www.sblgnt.com , so the site now
has much more information, including the preface of the edition (
http://sblgnt.com/about ) and the introduction (
http://sblgnt.com/about/introduction ).

On the apparatus: The editions chosen (WH, Tregelles,
Robinson-Pierpont, and the Greek Text behind the NIV) are roughly a
spectrum; the apparatus ends up giving more information about where
the editor's preferred reading fits on that spectrum than providing
deep, text-critical evidence for the readings. If you look at it this
way, it can be very helpful even at a glance. Holmes consulted all
sorts of information via apparatuses, studies, commentaries, articles,
etc. in making decisions, but we were not able to include such
information.

The beautiful thing, though, is that the text is available in
plain-text and XML format ( http://sblgnt.com/download , PDF will come
late Nov/early Dec) so if someone wanted to collate MSS of Revelation
against the SBLGNT, they could; and they could publish and release
that information under the terms of the license (
http://sblgnt.com/license ).

On "Byzantine" readings. The Robinson-Pierpont text (RP) is used as
the Byzantine witness; the SBLGNT agrees with RP in 969 of nearly 7000
(so, around 1 out of 7) variation units. SBLGNT agrees with RP against
the other editions (WH, Tregelles, NIV) 66 times.

Hope it helps. Feel free to direct such questions my way, off-list if
you do not deem them appropriate for general B-Greek discussion.

Rick Brannan
http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ricoblog
http://sblgnt.com


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm looking forward to seeing this text.  Not that one thing has anything to do
> with the other, but I am a big fan of Holmes' Apostolic Fathers, both the text
> and Baker House's fine edition.  I hope that the printed version of Holmes' GNT
> will have a very large font and thin paper so it is portable and flexible.  They
> would do well to bind it like the Zondervan RGNT.  Please don't print the OT
> quotations in italics.
>
> George's point about the apparatus is well taken, but perhaps different editions
> will have different apparati.  Mike A. is talking about people like people like
> me when he refers to people who cannot really judge the manuscript evidence,
> except that μη ειδως ουδε οιομαι ειδεναι.  (MH EIDWS OUDE OIOMAI EIDENAI)  Thus
> the apparatus as George described it would be helpful to me, just knowing
> whether a reading appears in Robinson or WH or NA 27 or NA 17 would be of
> interest.
>
> George, how did you access the text?  How would you characterize it in general?
> Does Holmes adopt many reading from the Majority Text?
>
>
>  Mark L
> Φωσφορος
>
>
> FWSFOROS MARKOS
>
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>
>
> ________________________________
> From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 3:06:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] New critical GNT from Mike Holmes!
>
>
>
> I have it.  I am somewhat disappointed in that it doesn't list ancient
> manuscripts in support of any particular reading.  It rather lists modern
> editions which adopt particular readings.
>  george
> gfsomsel
>
>
> … search for truth, hear truth,
> learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth,
> defend the truth till death.
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> - Jan Hus
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> ________________________________
> From: Wieland Willker <wie at uni-bremen.de>
> To: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 12:12:35 AM
> Subject: [B-Greek] New critical GNT from Mike Holmes!
>
> Michael W. Holmes did it!
>
> A new, critical GNT:
>
> <http://www.sblgnt.com/> http://www.sblgnt.com/
>
>
>
> Some more info here:
>
> http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2010/10/sbl-and-logos-bible-
> software-announce.html
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> Best wishes
>
>    Wieland
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