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I’d like to have a Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament for my studies. Any suggestions for one that is Catholic friendly and accessable for someone who is not a Greek authority? I could purchase, though having an online reference would let me spend my money on other apologetics material. Any other books, such as an expository examination of the Greek or Hebrew that anyone would recommend? Thanks.
 
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I’d like to have a Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament for my studies. Any suggestions for one that is Catholic friendly and accessable for someone who is not a Greek authority? I could purchase, though having an online reference would let me spend my money on other apologetics material. Any other books, such as an expository examination of the Greek or Hebrew that anyone would recommend? Thanks.
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I can’t help you regarding Hebrew but there are plenty of resources for the Greek New Testament online.

There is a parallel Greek/English NT at one of my favourite sites
ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/new-testament/default.asp
They also have a downloadable version in Windows Help format.
At the same site they have a parallel Greek/English library of excerpts from Greek philosophers and Church Fathers as well as some basic lessons in Ancient Greek.
ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/greek-word.asp

Last time I had checked out Apostoliki Diakonia they didn’t have the complete texts online, but it seems they have finished the work now.
apostoliki-diakonia.gr/bible/new_testament/index.html
From the index at the top of the page you can also go to the Old Testament pages (LXX). Note: you need to view the pages in Greek(ISO-8859-7) encoding.
At the following links you can find the Greek Septuagint and the Greek New Testament in zipped Word documents.
users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/sept.zip
users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/nt.zip

I hope this saves you a bit of money.
John
 
I would also suggest that you get a copy of the Septuaginit (LXX) to go with these, especially since this is the version of the OT that the NT authors quoted most.
 
Hi Aw___,

If you go to this site, you will find several ressources for both Greek and Hebrew.

First look for author Eberhard Nestlé, which will give you several choices of the critical edition of the Greek New Testament

Secondly, look for two books by a Jesuit Father of Gregorian University in Rome : Max Zerwick.
  1. A grammatical analysis of the New Testament by Max Zervick . This is a word by word parsing of the New Testament. Absolutely essential.
  2. Biblical Greek by the same author.
Additionally, you may need an ordinary Greek grammar from any source.

This particular site also has ressources for Hebrew, but I am not familiar with that part. I would suggest also looking up Jewish sites, which could be very helpful.

Verbum
 
The Wescott-Hort Greek New Testament is public domain and can be found at any of the online Greek NT resource sites. This edition is still respected by scholars. ALSO, you can find spoken audio (downloadable MP3) of this version by Marilyn Phemeister (sp?) on those same Greek NT resource sites you’ll find the Wescott-Hort version.
 
For the Greek, I use the Greek New Testament, 4th edition, by Kurt Aland, published by the American Bible Society. ISBN 3438051133. Just a personal choice, but in my opinion, it’s the best for critical textual study, and has TONS of footnotes regarding the same. I’ve never been particularly fond of the interlinear or parallel Greek Bibles, as it’s too easy to get caught up using THEIR translation(s). As others have noted, a Greek grammar and lexicon are essential.

Let’s see, what do I use for the Hebrew? I don’t have it here at the moment, but I believe it’s the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Again, with grammar and lexicon.

Good luck in your studies!

Mike
 
I do have a suggestion to add if you would like a computer program on your hard drive to search and compare, or just read. It is not a Catholic resource, but it does have the D-R, Vulgate, KJV with apoc, Greek, Hebrew, etc:

e-sword.net/

This is free and has many resources you can add (for free). The version of the Hebrew OT is not the standard BHS. Also, it does not have pointing. But it might serve a purpose for you. I find it to be unintuitive, but then I am used to another program and I am a dinosaur at times.

The American Bible Society sells hardbound copies of what you are looking for, both Heb and Grk. I, too, have the 4th ed of the Greek NT, a personal choice. Just a warning, though. Once you buy a program that you can hover with a mouse and have the dictionary of your choice pop up with the definition, you may be less inclined to use the hard copies.
 
I disagree Pug.

I have E-sword and Logos on mine with at least one running whenever I read the forums (never know when you need a quick reference) but I still find myself looking up verses in my hardbound bible.

There is nothing like the feel of a good book in your hands 👍
 
But for Grace:
I disagree Pug.
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Who said you could do that?😉

If I am looking up stuff in an English version of the bible, I completely agree with you. I never use the programs to read! Just if I need a hardcore search.

However, if one is not fully fluent in Hebrew, the computer programs do seem, well, very nice. I admit to some, uh, lack of scholarship and general laziness. (Apparatus, variant readings, what are those?)🤓 Okay, I do use the hardbound stuff sometimes.

Maybe it would help if you had a nicer program.

Pug <----- <>
 
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I’d like to have a Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament for my studies. Any suggestions for one that is Catholic friendly and accessable for someone who is not a Greek authority? I could purchase, though having an online reference would let me spend my money on other apologetics material. Any other books, such as an expository examination of the Greek or Hebrew that anyone would recommend? Thanks.
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In addition to the United Bible Societies Greek NT for the NT and the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia for the Hebrew Bible (already both recommended) 🙂 , you might benefit from the Translator’s New Testament; which is an English translation of the NT made for translators. It has many notes on passages which are difficult in the Greek: for instance, stoicheia in St.Paul has been translated as elements, principles, principalities; it may refer to angelic powers or to the principles of a teaching.​

Zerwick’s verse by verse analysis is very thorough - don’t be without it.

I would get books, because money is well spent on what one needs for one’s studies: if one can’t study properly, the apologetics is going to suffer 🙂 Stuff on the Net is too often old and out of date; grammar less so than history, perhaps. IMHO, economising on books about basics like these is a false economy. ##
 
Good advice so far. The Nestle/Aland/American Bible Society editions are all basically the same text. I have the NA, and it is thoroughly footnoted with variant readings, where they’re found, etc. The text itself is based on only a few Greek manuscripts, but those manuscripts are the oldest, the ones closest to the source.

As a counterfoil, you might also want to consider The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text (ISBN 0-8407-4963-5). This text takes the early manuscripts into account, but is based primarily on how a majority of the Greek manuscripts read. It is also a very scholarly text, very thoroughly footnoted.

This gives you two out of the three manuscript traditions. The third is the Scrivener Text, which is a development of the so-called Textus Receptus, on which the KJV was based. The Scrivener Text is the text from which the NKJV was translated. I don’t know where a copy of that text can be found.

DaveBj
 
Another you might want to see is “A Reader’s Greek New Testament,” published by Zondervan. It’s mostly Standard (UBS4, NA) but is the eclectic text underlying the NIV, so there are some differences in places (duly footnoted).

A nice feature of this text is that all words occuring 30 times or less in the NT are defined right on the same page. So it’s good for first-time reading.

However you should eventually advance to a critical edition once you’ve gotten the hang of it.
 
The have a Greek NT (Nestle-Aland 26th edition). It also has a dictionary in the back. It is awesome because it also has all the variant readings and references to all the ancient manuscripts readings. Here is a link amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3438051133/103-8450227-4223002?v=glance

I recommend William Mounces’ Basics to Biblical Greek,’ even though it is not a Catholic grammar book it still is good for a Catholic to learn the basics to Greek from it.
amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0310250870/qid=1124566939/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-8450227-4223002?v=glance&s=books

I would also recommend an interlinear.

As far as the Old Testament goes, I strongly favor the Greek Septuagint. I have Brenton’s LXX which has the Greek on one side and English on the other. It is very cheap and well worth the money! amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0913573442/qid=1124567156/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8450227-4223002?v=glance&s=books

I don’t put alot of stock in the Hebrew OT simply because most of the Hebrew Old Testaments are based totally upon the Masoretic Text, which is a Pharisee revision and corrupted in alot of Messianic passages of the OT. If you are going to pursue a Semetic language then I would recommend setting my sites upon Aramaic (Syriac) because our NT has roots that go deep into the Syriac. I would recommend the Syriac Peshitta.
 
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