Review: The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition

Today, I received a review copy of The UBS Greek New Testament. A Reader's Edition (courtesy of Hendrickson Publishers). Having had a chance to handle this volume I've been able to complete my comparison chart (click here and/or see below)

Here are a few observations.

1. It is larger than my UBS4, but it is about the same size as my English Bibles. Comparing it to my ESV Literary Study Bible, it is nearly the same height and width and about 1/4" thinner.
2. The page thickness is excellent. It is not the thin onion skin paper found in many other Bibles. There is very little bleed-through. This is tolerable!
   
3. The font is very readable. Chapter numbers are large and bold. Verse numbers are bold and easily distinguished from the footnote reference numbers. (See this excerpt.)
   
4. The page formatting is crisp and clean. I feel at home here because the formatting is so similar to my UBS4. There is approximately 7/8" margin on the outside edges.
5. The supplemented lexicon is simple and easy to use.
6. The maps take up the final four pages and, thankfully are not used as endpages as they are in the UBS4 standard text edition.

I'm very pleased with this edition and have already begun reading in it. I recommend this to intermediate students of Biblical Greek.

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Reader's Greek New Testament Comparison

		RGNT1	RGNT2	UBS:RE

Cover Leather Italian Duo-Tone leather Hardcover Ribbon NO NO YES Size Height 9.2" 10" 9.33" Width 5.9" 7" 6.22" Thickness 0.7" 1.1" 1.3125" Nbr of Pages 587 576 732 Paper Weight very thin very thin thin Color White White White Weight 1 lb 1.415 lb 2 lbs Text Underlying text for NIV Underlying text for TNIV USB4 Font Italic Non-Italic Non-Italic Stroke thin thin thick, clear English Section Headings NO NO YES Footnoted Glosses Format Paragraph Paragraph Two Columns Number of Occurrences 30x or less 30x or less 30x or less Repetition on Same Page YES YES NO Names Included YES YES NO

Parsing NO NO YES Declension NO NO YES OT References YES YES NO Comparison with UBS4 YES YES NO Apendices Maps NONE 4 pages full-color Std UBS full-color Lexicon (words 30x or more) NO 6 pages 22 pages Cost (List Price) $29.99 $34.99 $69.95

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See also my previous post entitled 3 Reader's Editions of the Greek New Testament.

Review: The UBS Greek New Testament: A Reader's Edition