What critical editions of Old or New Testament texts are available?

struggle4progress

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Mon May-02-11 05:43 PM
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What critical editions of Old or New Testament texts are available?

I mean, where can one find carefully edited volumes incorporating modern scholarly thought about the original layers of text and later interpolations?

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jeepnstein

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Mon May-02-11 05:47 PM
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1. My NIV is one source.

It's by no means the only source. The footnotes sometimes occupy more space than the actual text on page.

There's no one good source. You have to be willing to work and work really hard to get through the layers.

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cleanhippie

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Mon May-02-11 05:50 PM
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2. I would think that ALL editions have been "carefully edited".

The NIV, that is used by nearly all of the born-agains I know, seems to be rewritten in a modern vernacular. Many passages have subtle yet significant differences from older (KJV) versions that make it "easier" to read and "understand", IOW, to understand the view of Evangelicals. I have had discussion where we are looking at contradictions between passages and when I use a quote from the KJV to illustrate my point, they often come back with "well in MY version it doesn't say that..."

Thats my take on it, YMMV.

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struggle4progress

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Tue May-03-11 01:08 AM
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8. I suppose I am looking, not for easy reading, but rather for a defensible modern scholarly

examination of text

Bart Ehrman, for example, in discussing the "Acts of Thecla" in his Lost Christianties, briefly summarizes a coherent argument, suggesting that 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is an interpolation into the Pauline text. I have a Bible in which 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is noted to conflict with 1 Corinthians 11:5, but naturally the marginal note does not go so far as the argument Ehrman summarizes

Many Bibles, of course, note that Mark 16:9ff appears to be a later addition

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AlecBGreen

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Tue May-03-11 10:42 AM
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12. mmm...delicious Mark 16!

:9 The tastiest of the Gospels!

I always chuckle when Scripture gets converted to smiley. Yes yes, Im easily amused :)

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PADemD

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Mon May-02-11 05:52 PM
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3. Online source

If you just want to look up specific verses or search on specific words, there are several translations available on this web page:

http://www.biblegateway.com/

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Davis_X_Machina

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Mon May-02-11 06:06 PM
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4. For a 'critical edition' of the NT...

...in the strict sense, i.e. a modern edition of the Greek together with variant readings, Nestle-Aland is online.

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dimbear

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Mon May-02-11 06:16 PM
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5. Agreed. Another correct answer might be "only in the scholarly journals."

Unfortunately they are only available at a rather stiff expense, or in university libraries.

Irritating the price you have to pay for what was originally as free as air. :)

Doubtless SFP already follows Crosstalk: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/

They've gone into hibernation of sorts, tho............

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struggle4progress

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Tue May-03-11 01:09 AM
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9. That's a bit above my pay grade, I fear, me not reading Greek and such

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Davis_X_Machina

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Tue May-03-11 05:43 AM
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10. OK. "Critical edition" is a term of art....

...and can mean -- in certain circles, only means -- something like Nestle-Aland.

But then a lawyer and I mean different things by 'briefs'.....

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struggle4progress

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Tue May-03-11 06:56 AM
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11. Fair enough. It was sloppy wording on my part

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Meshuga

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Mon May-02-11 08:28 PM
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6. I like this one...

At least regarding the first five books in the Hebrew Bible:

http://www.amazon.com/Etz-Hayim-FL-Commentary-David-Lieber/dp/0827607121

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struggle4progress

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Tue May-03-11 12:42 AM
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7. Thanks. That looks interesting. I often find such Jewish commentaries quite informative,

which, of course, ought not surprise me

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