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Re: Request for information
> >> PS I'm also looking into obtaining a Greek New Testament. I am currently
> >> leaning towards the _UBS4_ and _Nestle-Aland 26th_. Any comments on
> >> these, or others, would also be appreciated.
> >
> >You might as well go with the standard text, either of the texts you
> >not would be good. However, if you can get a copy of UBS2, that is
> >preferred by many scholars.
>
> It should be said that UBS4 and NA26 are the identical text with very different
> type-face and apparatus. The UBS text is certainly much easier on the eyes!
Actually, "UBS3 Corrected" is also identical to NA26. UBS4 has
merely upgraded the probabilities on the choices from the variant
readings.
>
> What really brought me to reply to the message, however, was my puzzlement
> over WHY scholars are said to prefer UBS2 over UBS3 or 4? Please do explain
> that, if you will, and is this a judgment that others concur with?
I have never (to my knowledge) seen a UBS2! I did, however, watch an
email discussion on, I believe, IOUDAIOS and during that exchange
there seemed to be a consensus that UBS2 was a better text. I recall
that the major reasons were that it was not a clone of the NA text
and was not as heavily influenced by the Alands. Maybe others can
fill in more details.
Glenn Wooden
Acadia Divinity College
Wolfville, NS
Glenn Wooden
Acadia Divinity College
Wolfville N.S.
Canada
wooden@acadiau.ca