I have done a good bit of research on the reader's edition Greek New Testaments available on the market and have found the following information:
- Thus far, Zondervan has published two editions of RGNT.
A Reader's Greek New Testament (RGNT1), edited by Richard J. Goodrich & Albert L. Lukaszewski (April 2003)- Features:
- Leather Bound
- The underlying text of the NIV
- Italic Greek font
(click on the pic to enlarge) - Footnoted definitions of all Greek words occurring 30x or less
- As you will see from the previous pic, the editors chose to include names as vocab. For an intermediate student, the target audience of this tool, this is unnecessary. (The UBS edition skips these names.)
- Footnotes offering comparisons with UBS4
(click on the pic to enlarge - OT references are noted in a separate apparatus at the bottom of the page
(click on the pic to enlarge) - 608 pages
- 9.2" x 5.9" x 0.7"
- 1 lb
- 4 page excerpt
- Purchase:
A Reader's Greek New Testament, 2nd Edition (RGNT2), edited by Richard J. Goodrich & Albert L. Lukaszewski (November 2007)- Features:
- Italian Duo-Tone cover
- The underlying text of the TNIV
- Non-italic Greek font
- Footnoted definitions of all Greek words occurring 30x or less
- A superscripted number follows each word to be found in the footnotes
- This superscripted number follows every appearance of every word occurring 30x or more
(click on the pic to enlarge) - According to this strategy, as seen in the previous pic, words situated close together share the same footnote number. However, words appearing a few words apart or more are assigned a new footnote number.
(click on the pic to enlarge)
This is carried over into the footnotes section where the same definition will be repeated multiple times. To me, this is an unfortunate redundancy. (The editors of the RHB sought to remedy this problem. The UBS edition also has a solution.)
(click on the pic to enlarge)
- Footnotes offering comparisons with UBS4
- OT references are noted in a separate apparatus at the bottom of the page
- Includes a mini-lexicon of words occurring 30x or more
- Based on Warren C. Trenchard's Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament
- Four pages of full-color maps
- 576 pages
- 7" x 10" x 1.1"
- 1.415 lb
- 7 page excerpt
- Reviews:
- Rick Mansfield (The Lamp) - A Reader's Greek New Testament, 2nd Edition: Hands On Review
- Rick Brannan (ricoblog) - Reader's Greek New Testament Smackdown!
- Purchase:
- Hendrickson has also published a Reader's NT with the standard UBS text.
The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition, edited by Barclay Newman (December 2007)- Features:
- Burgundy Hardcover
- UBS 4th edition text edited by Barbara Aland, et al.
- Word definitions adapted from Barclay Newman's Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament
- Two-column, footnoted definitions of all Greek words occurring 30x or less
- Some parsing and declension provided
- Translations given according to context
(click on the pic to enlarge) - Section headings
- An appended dictionary of all words occurring 30x or more
- Maps from the UBS Greek New Testament
- 732 pages
- 9.33" x 6.22"
- 6 page excerpt
- Reviews:
- Rick Mansfield (The Lamp) - The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition (A Hands-On, Comparative Review)
- Rick Brannan (ricoblog) - Reader's Greek New Testament Smackdown!
- Purchase:
- List Price: $69.95
(click on the pic to enlarge)
Hey, thanks for this helpful post, Jason! Great work. I have Zondervan's 1st edition and love it but it looks like the Hendrickson edition has some pretty strong advantages (like the UBS text and parsing). On the other hand, I like Zondervan's leather cover better and especially it's price.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the post.
I appreciate the comments, AJ. I've been using a Greek-English interlinear with a 3x5 card to cover the English while I try to read the Greek. It's functional but not ideal.
ReplyDelete