From: Timster132@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 30 1996 - 04:24:28 EST
On 29-Jan-96 Paul Watkins, 102737,1761 writes...
>Those interested in the new 1991 Majority text (NOT the TR)
>The New Testament in the Original Greek According to the Majority/
>Byzantine Textform by Robinson/Pierpont, 1991.....The text itself is in near
>manuscript format, fully delimited of punctuation, accents, breathing marks,
>capitalization and paragraphing. It is thus laid out in uncial form but
with
>miniscule lettering (all lowercase except for book titles) and spacing
between
>words.
Interesting... since the *majority* of manuscripts have accent marks,
punctuation, breathing marks, in minuscule form, but not a "lowercase"
lettering.
>Chapter/verse numbers are added for reference. There is no
>textual apparatus cluttering up the page at the bottom or in the
>margin, and the type is very neat and readable. Recommended only for
>people who know Greek (those who don't should use an Strong's coded
>interlinear).
Recommended for people who know Greek but don't know texutal criticism... who
wants to be cluttered up with all those apparati? :)
Still, I imagine the type reads better than the Nestle 4th edition!
"Critically" yours,
Tim Staker, pastor
Poseyville Christian Church
Poseyville, IN USA
Timster132@aol.com
http://home.aol.com/Timster132
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Paul Watkins
Grace College and Seminary
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