Welcome to ALL THINGS CRITICAL TEXT!
The critical text is a “family” of text’s that have been composed using of the earliest available fragments and manuscripts of the NT that have ever been found, however these are numerically the minority. Critical texts are compiled using a complex theory known as reasoned eclecticism.
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UBS 5th Edition
The United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament (often referred to as the UBS Greek New Testament or UBS GNT) is an eclectic text based on the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, published in the United States by the American Bible Society. The UBS Greek New Testament is more user-friendly than the Nestle-Aland and is usually the choice of Bible translators, students, and pastors. User-friendly features of the UBS GNT include fewer words on the page, larger fonts, English subject headings, Old Testament quotations in bold, and only the most important cross references listed.
Nestle-Aland 28th Edition
The Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, formally titled “Novum Testamentum Graece,” is a widely recognized scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament, first published in 1898 by the German theologian Eberhard Nestle, who combined the best aspects of existing editions by Tischendorf, Westcott/Hort, and Weymouth, creating a hybrid text by choosing the reading supported by two of the three whenever they differed; this approach aimed to avoid bias towards any single manuscript tradition and provide a more balanced text.
SBL Greek NT “Step Bible”
The SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT) is a new edition of the Greek New Testament, established with the help of earlier editions. It attempts to be the first critical text to be published royalty free, essentially placing it into the hands of students and teachers without cost. This edition of the SBL is an interlinear app.
Wescott-Hort NT “Audio Version”
The “Westcott and Hort text” is one of the most influential Greek NT ever published. It was one of the first texts which prioritized older, “Alexandrian” manuscripts like Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus over the more widely circulated Byzantine text. This effectively establishing a new standard for textual criticism by favoring earlier manuscript traditions; this approach significantly influenced subsequent translations of the New Testament, and their influence is still felt to this day.
Downloadable Greek NEW Testaments
SBL Greek New Testament
This is the free digital download file, this can be freely copied for custom modification, including printing and use in publishing.
UBS 4th/Nestle Aland 27th “Interlinear” App
NOTE: This edition does not include the apparatus found in either of these editions, only the text. It does however utilize the translator helps and definitions that are found with the published edition of Louw & Nida’s “Greek-English Lexicon Based On Semantic Domains”
Nestle-Aland 27th (modified) Greek New Testament
The Nestle-Aland 27th edition is under copywrite, so this is a modified version of the Wescott and Hort text that note all the NA27 variants.