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Title: Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger ISBN: 3-438-06010-8 Publisher: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 Format: Leather Bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Hope You Can Read Greek
Comment: I don't know what book those other reviewers read, but I was put this on the shelf in 5 minutes. Much is written in Greek. I tried keeping up with a Greek Interlinear Bible on the computer, but still couldn't make sense of it. The author assumes you can understand Greek. If you're not a Greek scholar, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK. Major disappointment.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Perfect Companion to UBS4
Comment: This volume provides an insightful commentary on the Greek text of the United Bible Societies' 4th edition Greek New Testament. In producing a copy of the Greek New Testament many variant readings have to be analyzed and decided upon. Metzger has provided in this commentary an answer as to why one reading was chosen over another. In doing so he seeks to highlight the problem(s) involved with each set of alternative readings and also provides an explanation of the Bible Committee's evaluation and resolution of those problems.
A helpful introduction is provided wherein the history and basic rules of textual criticism are canvassed in order to show how the committee made their decisions. Metzger provides a brief introduction to the art and science of textual criticism. He provides an "outline of criteria" which was used by the committee. External evidence evaluates such things as the date of the textual witnesses, the geographical distribution of the manuscripts, the relationship of text families, and the understanding that witnesses should be weighed not counted. Under the internal evidence he highlights that the more difficult and shorter reading is to be preferred and that there needs to be a consideration of the context of each author and what they probably would have written.
The commentary itself follows a verse-by-verse canonical approach and provides a comment on the many textual variants found in the UBS4. About 30% (225 pages) of the commentary is on the book of Acts given the difficulty of the two differing text types in early circulation (Western and Alexandrian). Helpful discussion is also provided on such controversial passages as the ending of Mark's Gospel and 1 John 5:7.
The art and science of textual criticism is an important task for both scholars and preachers in seeking to establish the text of the New Testament. This tool will help aid that task immensely. However it should not be used as a substitute for doing the hard work first. This tool should be used as a check in confirming one's own work. Nevertheless this tool provides the "voice" of many scholars in how they decided one text over another - a gift for the student of the Greek New Testament.
Rating: 5
Summary: it's the only one we have, and it's the best !
Comment: What do we have here? No more and no less than a textual discussion of many important variants in the NT text (and you don't get this kind of thing in many ecellent critical editions of any literary work). And it's written by Metzger, B.M., who summarizes the discussion in the editing commitee, and sometimes adds his own minority reports, because -fortunately- he doesn't agree with the Aland's & Co.
The only pity is the number of variants discussed, which are the
Aland et al. Greek NT ones, with only a few additions. But so what? It's either this or nothing at all.
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Title: The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration by Bruce M. Metzger ISBN: 0195072979 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Greek New Testament: With English Introduction including Greek/English dictionary/flexible by Kurt Aland ISBN: 3438051133 Publisher: American Bible Society Pub. Date: 09 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Text of the New Testament an Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism by Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland ISBN: 0802840981 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics by Daniel B. Wallace ISBN: 0310218950 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature by William Arndt, Walter Bauer, Frederick W. Danker ISBN: 0226039331 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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