What's a good Greek New Testament?

[josephback]

Either Greek alone(but with verse numbers), or Greek-English bilingual. Preferably with an apparatus listing variants. Thank you.

 

[Credo_ergo_sum]

Preferably Greek alone(but with verse numbers), or Greek-English bilingual. Must include an apparatus listing variants. Thank you.

I use the Byzantine Text because of my dislike for eclectic and Alexandrian texts. You can pick the Textus Receptus or the Patriarchal Text. I use the Patriarchal Text 1904 mainly because it´s easier to find. The site of the Greek Orthodox archdiocese has the entire NT here. Just click book and chapter and then download it as a pdf with verses in the top right corner.

Also, I compare the Greek text with the Vulgata Clementina, something which I can recommend to everyone. I suggest you stay away from the Nova Vulgata however.

 

[DaveBj]

There are a number of publications of the eclectic text; have you tried amazon.com? I have one of those, and I also have the Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text, which also has the “apparatus” to show which manuscripts have which variant readings. Good hunting.

 

[John7]

Greek-UBS4 with apparatus
amazon.com/Testament-Edition-Revised-Greek-English-Dictionary/dp/3438051370/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332113356&sr=1-6

Here’s a parallel Diglot Greek/English NT. Greek-NA27 (with complete textual apparatus), English-NET
store.bible.org/product.asp?ProductID=56
i saw at Amazon for $50

Here’s an interlinear with some variant info. Greek-UBS4, interlinear English, and NRSV in side margins.
amazon.com/The-Greek-English-Interlinear-Personal-Size/dp/0842345647/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332112290&sr=8-1#_

 

[patrick457]

Either Greek alone(but with verse numbers), or Greek-English bilingual. Preferably with an apparatus listing variants. Thank you.

If you want a critical edition of the Greek NT, you could try some of those described on this page.

Most translations and academic works nowadays tend to use the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, now in its 27th edition - the de facto standard - with the United Bible Societies’ The Greek New Testament, which had undergone four editions, coming in as a close second, so you might want either one or both of those. The texts of both of the most recent editions are identical, save for punctuations - which are, after all, lacking in the ancient manuscripts - they only differ in the apparatuses: the NA considerably includes more instances of variants than the UBS does (which is mainly concerned only with variants ‘meaningful for translators’) but then gives much briefer representative manuscript attestation. Some would recommend the UBS edition, and its companion volume, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, as helpful for students, while the NA is useful for more serious scholarly work.

If you prefer the Byzantine text type, Hodges and Farstad’s The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text (which assumes that the Byzantine text is the original and thus focuses on reconstructing it) could also work.

The ongoing multi-volume Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus is not a critical text, but it is the fullest (and apparently as of now, the most accurate) collection of the texts of NT papyri and uncials now known: as of now, they’ve published both the general (volume 1) and the Pauline epistles (volumes 2-3). It’s in German though, and I don’t know of any English version around yet.