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| Greek New Testament: With English Introduction including Greek/English dictionary/flexible (Greek Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kurt Aland
Publisher: American Bible Society
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 11114
Media: Imitation Leather
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1195
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 3438051133
Dewey Decimal Number: 225
EAN: 9783438051134
ASIN: 3438051133
Publication Date: December 9, 1998
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 A must read... November 6, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you want a more intimate relationship with the Lord, than you must be able to read His Word in the original language. I hope everyone will get this and study it.
The Greek New Testament July 24, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I Consider this book an excellent tool for serious students who are commited to study the bible. This includes a very good dictionary; greek-spanish.
This Is The Only One Called "Best" June 9, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are going to study Greek with the intent of using it you must purchase this book. There is no alternative. This is simply the best Greek New Testament on the market. Nothing else comes close. Other versions and editions exist. They may be useful (though I haven't found them to be of much use), but this is THE scholarly edition.
The One Stop Shop for the serious NT scholar. March 7, 2006
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
How do we know what was actually in the "original" New Testament books? How well can we rely on any of a hundred different doctrinally biased translations? With a basic knowledge of koine Greek (not that hard, learning only 600 words will cover 90% of the NT), this is the book that helps provide the answer. There is no bias in one direction or another, and no interpretation is provided. The purpose of the book is for the user to see one "standard" text alongside all the variant texts, and to interpret for themselves. This is not a interlinear or interpaginated Greek text with English translation. This book is for those who are interested in the original words, indeed the lettering, of the text itself.
Novum Testamentum Graece is the Nestle Aland standard edition of the New Testament in Greek with cross references to many different codex and papyrus "witnesses" for every verse, phrase or word, where those differ between texts. Originally produced in 1898 by Eberhard Nestle, when New Testament texts even as old as the fourth or fifth century were thin on the ground, this, the 1993 27th Edition, edited by Kurt Aland in his 42nd year of doing this work, takes full account of all the significant discoveries made in the 20th Century up to the date of publication, including the rare papyrii which represent the very oldest Christian manuscript texts in existence.
A casual glance at a page will yield a morass of Greek lettering, diacritical marks, notation symbols and a section taking up a third of a page at the bottom which appears as a confusing jumble of numbers and letters - letters in Roman, Greek, both majuscule and minuscule, and Hebrew. This first impression is highly misleading. First of all, though it may seem that you need to be an expert in textual scholarship before you begin, this is not the case. The Introduction is written in both German and English, and gives full guidance to the meanings of the symbols and how to read the textual variances; and the Appendices give full details of all the codices, parchments and papyrii being referred to by those complex letters, numbers and other symbols - the exact details of which are not important if you are simply reading the Greek text. Having found the relevant section of the Introduction, it just took me five minutes to read and digest the rules, and for the text as presented to become as clear as day.
This is certainly the first quadrilingual book I've ever read: the Foreword and Introduction are each written in German and English, the text itself is in Greek (of course) and the Appendices, the Title page and every other piece of informative text is written in Latin. But don't let that put you off, because the Latin is easily deciphered (probably easier for English speakers than German ones!).
I feel enormously privileged to have obtained an excellent condition copy of this classic text at a very reasonable price, and it is certainly a prize in my library. Incidentally, for a work of pure scholarship it's astonishing value for money, compared to the International Green New Testament Project, of which a single volume, covering half of just one gospel, costs over $200!
Agreement! March 4, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have to voice agreement with those who praise this as the best portable but I wonder how much of our love for the book is because it has sat on our desks for so many years and along with our Liddell and Scott is the first place we go to check something!
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