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NA28 Greek New Testament text in Accordance
The NA28 Greek New Testament is now available for purchase in Accordance Bible Software. The text itself is free here. The Accordance version includes the apparatus, marginalia, and other nice enhancements. Here’s a screencast that shows how you can use the NA28 in Accordance: More about the Nestle-Aland edition is here. Its Accordance product page is here, … Continue reading
Göttingen in Logos is On Sale Friday
$369.95 for the Göttingen Septuagint in Logos Bible Software. It’s on sale for International Septuagint Day, all day Friday (midnight to midnight). If you click here, it adds to your cart, and you can purchase from there–whether you already have the academic discount or not. Marked down from $700. I reviewed the Göttingen Septuagint in Logos here. … Continue reading
The Göttingen Septuagint in Logos Bible software
Göttingen. Not just a city in Germany, but a word that instills awe and fear in the hearts of every student of the Septuagint who must eventually consult the set of Old Greek editions by that name. Okay, that’s maybe a bit dramatic. I do suspect, however, that if one finds it challenging to learn … Continue reading
How to Read and Understand the Göttingen Septuagint: A Short Primer, part 2 (Apparatus)
The one who is serious about getting at the earliest attainable text of the Hebrew Bible will eventually find herself or himself face-to-face with a page like this: The Göttingen Septuagint is the largest scholarly edition of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Its full title is Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis … Continue reading
New NA28 Greek New Testament text is free online
The full text of the new NA28 Greek New Testament is available online for free. No critical apparatus (that will probably be for-pay only), but it’s nice to be able to easily access the text now. You can go here to do that. More about the Nestle-Aland edition is here.
How to Read and Understand the Göttingen Septuagint: A Short Primer, part 1
The Göttingen Septuagint is the cadillac of Septuagint editions. It’s the largest scholarly edition of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Its full name is Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen, Germany. The Göttingen Septuagint has published more than 20 volumes spanning some 40 biblical books (counting … Continue reading
Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) in Accordance 10
The next generation of the Biblia Hebraica Stutttgartensia (BHS) is the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ). I’ve written more generally about scholarly editions of the Hebrew Bible, and have reviewed the BHS module in Accordance already. In this post I review BHQ in Accordance. Some excellent scholarly treatments of the BHQ have already appeared. Anyone serious … Continue reading
N.T. Wright: how he studies
Great stuff from N.T. Wright on how he starts his days (reading Greek and Hebrew), how he responded when an adviser told him to choose between the Church and the Academy (he chose both), and more:
BHS module in Accordance 10, reviewed
Oddly enough, the biggest challenge for me in my Hebrew exegesis classes was not to do with the Hebrew language itself. Instead, learning how to decipher the abbreviations and sigla in the “critical apparatus” of a scholarly Hebrew Bible stretched me most. I recently wrote a brief introduction to the available scholarly editions of the … Continue reading
Praising God through Academic Biblical Studies: Less Hypermodernist Objectivism, More Affect!
Why such an emphasis on wanting to get as close to the “original text” of the Bible as possible? Or, as some scholars call it, the “earliest attainable text”? Earlier this week I wrote a bit about scholarly editions of the Jewish Scriptures, both the Greek and the Hebrew. But I began asking myself today, … Continue reading
