From: KEN LITWAK (KDLITWAK@concentric.net)
Date: Wed Nov 27 1996 - 20:10:21 EST
From time to time, someone comes looking for a Greek NT essentially 
for free.  I'd just like to make a comment.  I don't know anything about 
these individuals and or what their intentions are.  I would say, 
however, that considering the relatively low price of the UBS GNT, 
andyou can probably pick up a third edition for cheap, that if possible 
one ought to get one.  Any version of the GNT you can get off the 'Net 
is probably not going to have a text-critical apparatus.  SInce there is 
no such thing as "THe Greek NT" but approximations by scholars with 
various perspectives that lead them to take various readings as most 
probably correct (and this is not any sort of judgment about those 
reasons -- just an observation about their existence), one should not 
blithely equate any given text with a critical edition.  NA27 doesn't 
hae all those funny marks in it for nothing.  In my not so humble 
opinion, there are a few basic tools you need to properly study the New 
Testament in Greek, and a critical edition is at the top of that list, 
folowed second by a good lexicon (see Edward Hobbs's note on 
that subject) and an up-to-date grammar.  I myself have about both 
the UBS and Nestle-Aland critical editions and about six grammatical 
tools and I'm sure someone like Carl Conrad or Edward Hobbs would make 
my toolset look pathetic.  IF all else fails, ask Santa Claus for a 
critical GNT.  
Ken L.
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