The New Testament in the Original Greek

by Anonymous, Maurice A. Robinson (Editor), William G. Pierpont (Editor)

THE NEW TESTAMENT was written in Koine Greek during the first century AD. From the time of its original revelation, handwritten copies continually were prepared in order tomaintain and preserve that original text into the modern era. All copies made prior to the invention of movable-type printing were made by hand, resulting in various scribal alterations, most of these being of a minor nature. Although the autographs no longer exist and no two manuscript copies are completely identical, sufficient evidence exists by which one can produce an accurate representation of the original text by comparing and evaluating the overall manuscript consensus. Robinson and Pierpont have taken the utmost care in preparing that text for this edition.

Various other methods for restoration of the original NT text have fallen short of their goal, in part due to methodological subjectivity, and in part to a presuppositional bias against the claims of the Byzantine Textform. The texts created under such a bias tend to be based on only a handful of favored manuscripts, and fail to consider all transmissional factors in the preservation of the original text. As a result, the modern eclectic texts tend to preserve more of a caricature than the essence of the originals.

In contrast, Robinson and Pierpont have applied many of the same methods of textual criticism to their task, but without the anti-Byzantine bias. Their method of "reasoned transmissionalism" is based on the wider scope of manuscript transmission throughout history. The preface of this edition explains the basic method by which the present editors have arrived at their basic text. The appendix contains Robinson's essay, "The Case for Byzantine Priority," which presents a rationale for and defense of the theory and methodology that has been applied in the preparation of this edition.

Genres: Reference, Theology, Nonfiction, Christianity, Christian

587 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 65

About the author

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* They are officially published under that name
* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author
* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific author

Books whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed to Unknown.

See also: Anonymous

Reviews

[Daniel Kleven]

I switched to this text for my daily reading this year [2018]. As a Greek text, it's great--nice readable font, an apparatus that doesn't gobble up the page, intuitive paragraphs. The obvious distinction with this text is that it's the most up-to-date Byzantine Text around (vs. the old Farstad/Hodges Majority Text).

It's introduced by a 23 page preface, sketching out in brief how a genuine New Testament scholar and text critic (Maurice Robinson) could defend what appears to be an out-dated theory of the transmission of the text. If that whets your appetite, the volume concludes with at 57 page appendix, "The Case for Byzantine Priority," Robinson's fullest treatment of the subject anywhere (apart from his separately published articles). This remains the strongest argument I've read anywhere, and I remain thoroughgoingly unconvinced by the various eclectic approaches to textual criticism. Robinson's Byzantine Priority approach captures nicely my own sentiments, and it's a delight to have this text in print for daily reading and study.

[Ariston]

Available online is Maurice Robinson's ‘The Case for the Byzantine Priority’, which should be read by anyone who is skeptical about the need for this critical edition.

The text itself is well–formatted, with a large, easy to read Greek typeface (which is unusual for Greek NTs), it is well–bound an lays reasonably flat, making it easy to work with.

However, one of the best features? It's public domain: ‘Anyone is permitted to copy and distribute any copy of this text or any portion of this text…’

[Dougald]

My Greek is not as good as my Hebrew so this one had a heavy dependence on English. I will attempt to read through it again in two years time. This time reading through it the whole year (only about a page most days) in order to make my dependence on the English less and less.

[Thomas GOSSE]

This is the Greek New Testament based on the Majority Text. Byzantine Text Type

[Yadav Priyanka]

Well, it has plenty to offer but what I take from this is:

When thou does alms, don't let the left hand know what the right hand doeth!

[Lu Tsun]

The New Testament in the Original Greek is a critical text reconstructed by Brook F. Westcott and Fenton J. A. Hort replacing the Textus Receptus based on the oldest New Testament fragments discovered at the late nineteen century.

This significant work set up the standard of critical principles and procedures that are still closely followed by contemporary scholars including Nestle-Aland.

Westcott and Hort preferred the Vanticanus and the Sinaiticus manuscripts over the others while they believed that the combination of Codex Bezae with the Old Latin and the Old Syriac represented the original form of the New Testament text.

Westcott and Hort distinguished four text-types in their studies: Syrian/Antiochian, Western, Alexandrian/Egyptian, and Neutral which was considered most free from corruption and best represented by B and Aleph.

[Cyiza Jean]

Mathew