The Greek New Testament, Black French Morocco Leather TH513:NT: Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge

by Anonymous

The Greek New Testament holds a special place in Christian thinking as the mouthpiece for God's revelation of the Gospel and of Jesus Christ. While there are a few trusted Greek texts currently in print, significant advances have been made in Greek translation studies of the New Testament since a standard text was last adopted in 1975. In this edition, an editorial team of biblical scholars connected to Tyndale House, Cambridge, have taken a rigorously philological approach to reviewing the standard text, looking afresh at spelling and paragraphing, and integrating recent findings about scribal practices and other advances in New Testament Greek. The result is a ground-breaking contribution to biblical scholarship. This edition is beautifully produced, fully sewn and bound with a black French Morocco leather cover. It is intended for use by students, scholars and clergy.

Genres: Scripture, Reference, Biblical Studies

540 pages, Leather Bound

Published November 23, 2017

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Reviews

[Darryl Burling]

This is easily my favorite Greek New Testament to read. The approach to variants is simple and effective, and unencumbered by the approach taken by the NA/UBS editions. Further, the text block is minimalistic, with a very readable font, and great paper.

[Daniel Ligon]

An excellent resource with a beautiful layout. The reader’s edition helpfully gives English footnotes for many of the less common words.

[Maxime N. Georgel]

Le principe de ce Nouveau Testament est de proposer en bas de page la traduction des termes qui apparaissent moins de 25 fois dans le NT grec. Cela veut dire qu'en connaissant les 500 mots les plus courant, on peut lire ce Nouveau Testament sans se référer à un dictionnaire.

Je l'ai utilisé pour lire les 14 premiers chapitres de Matthieu et quelques autres textes ici et là. C'est agréable pour passer rapidement à l'immersion sans devoir sans cesse s'arrêter dans sa lecture pour chercher une traduction.

[Caleb Friske]

One of my favorite resources for studying The Greek New Testament. Helpful introductions to each book, plenty of space to write notes, and glosses for infrequent words at the bottom of each page (a feature that I especially appreciate).

Read my full review on Substack: https://shepherdspath.substack.com/p/...

[Daniel Supimpa]

I haven’t read the whole NT, but I can say a few words:

1) I used it as my basic text for translating Matthew, Mark, John, Galatians, Philemon and 1-3 John as a whole, besides readings and translations from portions of other NT books. It was very helpful for my purpose of deepening my own fluency and translation capacity in the last year and a half.

2) the book, as an artifact is aesthetically pleasant and practical. Its size fits well in the hand or on a desk; cover, paper aspect, classic-style binding, font types and sizes were awesome in my view. It looks better than UBS5 reader’s edition, in my opinion.

3) the “extra-textual” material was quite handy and well-condensed. The intro by faculty members of Tyndale House, the footnotes with infrequent lemmas (<25x) and the glossary made it possible to simply take this Reader’s edition, a pencil and a notebook and start working.

4) A Couple cons: the book is a little heavy (over 1kg / 2.2lbs without the hardback slipcase), but I wouldn’t hold it against it. My main issue would be with the fact that this is Tyndale House’s critical text (not NA28, UBS5, Majority or Received Text, and so on), but we find it lacking the critical notes. I know this is a hard editorial decision, esp. in view of the weight and length of the text as it already is, but a reader finds a specific critical text with no textual explanations. Think about the sequence of books found by the reader: Gospels, Acts, General Epistles, Pauline Epistles (with Hebrews within it!), and Revelation. A short justification in the introduction would be expected for this major choice. Or think about John 7:52 followed by 8:12 without a single word from the editors! These, I think, were decisions based on editorial concerns (page limiting), though they deserved at least an explanation.

Overall, I would still buy and use this beautiful edition with its resources, particularly for sermon preparation or for casual reading of the NT Greek. And this is why I’m keeping a 5-star (perhaps a 4.75?) score for this Greek NT as a very practical Reader’s Edition.

[Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms]

Crossway sent me a copy of "The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge, Guided Annotating Edition" in exchange for an honest review.

Students and pastors should regularly be in the Word in the original languages. They should translate and make notes on the Greek text. The more I use the THGNT, the more I fall in love with it as my primary text. This book takes that amazing text, formats it with the intended purpose of pastors, students, and scholars taking notes on the page, and adds a bunch of helpful study resources. Rather than the THGNT critical apparatus, it features a complete parsing and gloss of words that occur 25 times or fewer in the NT. That alone is helpful for your own translation. One of my favorite features of this book is the book introductions. Each introduction features a list of key vocabulary for the particular book, a section commenting on the style and syntax of the book, a section comparing and contrasting the THGNT to the NA28, and a brief bibliography. Altogether, this book is a fantastic tool for going deeper into the Greek New Testament. It's a must-have especially for pastors and Greek students.

[Jonathan Ammon]

As far as a physical edition goes this is beautiful, I could go on and on, but I won’t. As far as the text, there are some bold choices here. The Tyndale House NT is an important new Critical Text but this edition offers little introduction and zero textual notes or apparatus. For a Critical Text that doesn’t have major variants in brackets or footnotes, this is not helpful. The pericopae adulterae is absent with no jote or explanation for the reader. You would have to buy another edition or look the information up as to why the Tyndale text makes that choice. It also makes it awkward for practical ministry when even high probability variants are completely absent.

A great resource, but I think some textual notes, even the minimum in most English translations, would have been appropriate.

[Debbie]

The New Testament text is entirely in Greek but there is a dictionary in the back giving the English for the Greek words. The text size is decent, not large print nor small or tiny print. I'm only just starting to learn biblical Greek, but I thought a Greek New Testament would be useful to have. It's a hardback and the paper it's printed on is thick enough to endure use (not tissue-thin). The text is described as from "the standard text." This may be a 5 star book, but I still don't know enough Greek to know how useful this book will be so I went with 4 stars.

I received a review copy of this book from the publisher through Amazon Vine.

[Charles Williams]

Whoa mama this is good.

[Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms]

Crossway sent me a copy of "The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge" (THGNT) in exchange for an honest review.

The Bible was not written in English, and as such, it's important for us to be familiar with the original languages. The THGNT does a lot of unique things that makes it distinct from the NA28 or UBS5. This is a critical text, giving priority early textual variants. Paragraph markers and spelling are designed to reflect the ancient Greek manuscripts. The textual apparatus is minimal. Whereas the NA28 and UBS5 are geared toward academics, the THGNT is geared toward readers and preachers. They have clearly succeeded at this while also creating a GNT that can serve as a family heirloom. Unlike mainstream academic editions, the THGNT has top-notch aesthetics. The paper is really nice, it's a hardcover, and it has a vinyl liner (something I wish Crossway would do for more of their Bibles).

In short, in the THGNT you have a very fine edition of the GNT which is about the closest you'll ever get to holding an ancient Christian codex. This is now my go-to for reading and studying the New Testament on a daily basis. Check it out! It's well worth the purchase.

[Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms]

Crossway sent me a copy of “The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge, Reader's Edition” in exchange for an honest review.

Have I mentioned before that I love the THGNT? I may have mentioned it once or twice. This edition is no different. As with the other editions, the craftsmanship is top-notch. The layout remains fantastic. What makes this edition unique is the combination of text and notes. Unlike the Guided Annotating Edition, the text block has the spacing and format of the Standard Edition. Unlike the Standard Edition, this one has no text-critical apparatus. Instead, it has a full parsing of infrequent NT words. That makes this edition especially helpful for students and casual reading of the Greek text. I will also note that the size of this edition makes it a perfect partner on the shelf to the Hebrew Old Testament Reader's Edition. Altogether, this is a phenomenal edition of Scripture. Check it out!

[Andre DeWinne]

Very nicely produced edition with the Greek text in one column and helpful glosses on the less common words. This makes it very useful for practicing your NT Greek reading.
The only drawbacks:
1. The editors chose to follow the spelling of the earliest manuscripts which results in a number of differences with the text as found in the standard Nestle-Aland edition which most scholars and Bible translators use.
2. Nowhere do they state what principles they used to establish their text and how it differs from Nestle-Aland. No textual apparatus whatsoever. For some people this won't make any difference since it is designed just to READ the text with ease, and not try to solve textual issues. But a minimum of textual notes or at least something in the introduction about how they solved textual problems should not have been left out altogether. That is why I can't give it five stars.

[Greg]

This might be my favorite reader's edition. Very easy to navigate.

[Timothy Decker]

4.5... I don't like the change to canonical order.

[Danny Barulli]

This reader format made reading Greek fun. Having studied and taught Greek for over 30 years, I finally read the NT in Greek. What a blessed experience. I am rereading it.