The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

The type setting is large enough and clear for reading. I personally use the various Greek NT critical editions for text critical matters such as UBS, NA, TGNT and WHGNT. The SBL apparatus interacts with other Greek NT's but does not give the manuscript evidence/witnesses like some of the other NT texts do.

This will not only help you to understand those deep passages but will give you a feel for the meaning behind the original intent of the author. Happy studying!Author "Those Who Are Wise Will Shine!"Understanding God's Work in Your Redemption.[...]

Convenient and easy to read. I use it in my class. I carry it with me wherever I go. Good text.

Although I already own the printed version of "The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition," I decided to purchase the Kindle version for my Kindle Fire as it is an excellent resource and the price ($0.99) can not be beat. As another reviewer wrote, however, the Kindle version does not display all of the Greek characters. I actually returned this product after purchasing it because, until this issue is corrected, the text is unreadable and hence, worthless. For this reason I give "The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition" Kindle version a "one-star" review.

The SBLGNT is a newly issued Greek New Testament, compiled by Michael Holmes, who may be the best New Testament textual critic working in the United States. Readers will be pleased that the affordable Kindle edition of the SBLGNT allows readers to efficiently navigate the apparatus: a simple click on a variant in the text (indicated by triangles -- one triangle for single-word variants, bracket-triangles for multiple-word variants) will take the reader immediately to the relevant note in the apparatus, and a simple click on the "Back" button will return the reader to the text.Variants that include entire verses which were not adopted in the text appear only in the apparatus and even their verse-numbers are not in the text. For this reason, some variants in the text which appear, at first, to involve only a single word in the text, involve entire verses in the apparatus. For example, the variant at the end of John 7:53 appears to involve just one word in the text, but in the apparatus, it involves John 7:53b-8:11. Likewise at the end of Mark 15:27, verse 28 is entirely in the apparatus.The Kindle's cursor wraps the text horizontally and vertically, significantly reducing the hassle-factor in link-clicking.The Introduction explains abbreviations, symbols, etc. very clearly, and with a little practice anyone who can use a printed Greek New Testament should be able to use this one, too.It would have been nice if a variety of symbols had been used in the text, rather than only triangles, to signify types of variants (substitutions, omissions, additions, or word-order). But considering that the apparatus compares the text to four other editions of the Greek New Testament (the editions of Tregelles, Westcott & Hort, the 2005 Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Text, and the published base-text of the NIV -- which is not, at some points, really the NIV's base-text!) that could have required a lot of symbols, and make extra demands on the reader. Nevertheless I would like to see, in future editions, symbols in the text to notify the reader when a reading adopted in the SBLGNT is singular or almost-singular -- that is, adopted only by Holmes (such as at Hebrews 2:9), or adopted by Holmes and only one of the editions cited in the apparatus (such as at Mark 1:1).The SBLGNT does not offer complex information about a variant's manuscript-background, or its probable cause, or anything else, except how it has been regarded by a small group of textual critics. But what it does -- present a Greek New Testament text compiled by a well-informed specialist, with dissenting conclusions from earlier editions by other scholars -- it does very well.Readers expecting to find, in this book, the original text of the New Testament, or something reasonably close to it, should exercise due caution at those points where the adopted text stands apart from all the texts cited in the apparatus. The text is mainly Alexandrian. A careful reading of the Introduction should give readers a pretty good idea of what to expect.

I have been using the SBLGNT on my Kindle 3 (a.k.a. Kindle Keyboard) for a few months now and have found it to be extremely helpful for consulting Greek on the fly. All of my other Greek resources are either on my laptop or in print books, so it is nice to have something to look at while I'm at a Bible study or away somewhere.PROS:-It's the most reliable Greek text available for Kindle so far.-It's easy to navigate.-The font is easy to read.-It includes a basic apparatus if you are interested in significant textual variants, etc.CONS:-It is not the text of the UBS/NA27, which has become standard for most readers of the Greek New Testament.-Some people will wish it had a more complete textual apparatus. (This is a non-issue in my opinion; the fact that it is on a Kindle means that it is for basic reading and not for technical study.)To sum up, this is definitely the best Greek New Testament available for Kindle. If you are looking to do in-depth Greek study involving all of the textual variants of a given passage, then the Kindle is not where you should be looking anyway. But if you want a GNT to consult on the fly and to carry with you as a basic reference, then this is the one to get.

As other reviewers have noted, the kindle edition doesn't display all the Greek characters in the default font. I had to fiddle a bit with the font to realize that if one changes the font to "Times New Roman" then the characters will display correctly.It would have been helpful to either have the book load in a font that would display all the characters by default, or to include this information in the introduction to the book.All in all, I am delighted to have a Greek New Testament for my Kindle Fire!

I'll begin by saying that there is nothing wrong with the content of the product at all. In fact I very much want to have it as an important part of my library - the problem is that when I downloaded this edition to my new Kindle Fire, there are a number of Greek letters that do not display properly and as a result display as boxes. This makes the product useless for the Kindle Fire.Please fix!

This is a Greek New Testament - OK! But what I expected was an edition which is up to modern critical standards. What I did get, however, was an edition made along the methods employed in the first (!) edition of Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece in 1898, which was based on a cumulative reading of Tischendorf, Westcott-Hort and Weymouth. Well, at least you get something for (almost = .99 cents) nothing, and it is better than nothing.