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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:56 am

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Which greek NT is the NET bible translated from? Is it NA27? I've seen very textual critical debate in these forums, which suggests to me that most folks who discuss the translations from greek are working from the same text.

I guess I'm just curious (even though I'm a newbie at the greek) to know what is currently regarded as the closest to the autographs that we can use as our best shot as an authoritative text.

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:25 pm

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The NA27 (which refers to Nestle-Aland, 27th Ed.) is the most widely accepted Greek text today. You will often also see references to the UBS 4, which is also widely accepted. The NA27 was made for scholars, while the UBS was made for translators. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the NET would have used at least one of these.

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:01 pm

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According to the prefatory remarks in the NET:

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For the NT
the Greek text to be used by individual translators was decided by the textual
consultant. The full Greek text will be published at a later date.

In other words, there was freedom to use the whichever text the translator felt best reflected the original (or the preferable?). If they wished to use the Majority, or a particular manuscript (family?), or the NA27 choice, or whatever.

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:03 pm

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Here is another quote from the Preface to the NET Bible that may prove helpful.

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Another major change introduced with the Second Beta Edition of the NET Bible was a significant update to the text-critical notes for the New Testament. After the printing of the First Beta Edition, it was suggested to the NET Bible team by the German Bible Society (Deutsche Bibelgesellchaft) in Stuttgart, Germany, that the information in the New Testament tc notes should be standardized to the Nestle-Aland 27th edition text which they publish in conjunction with the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster, Germany. (Prior to this point, the textual evidence in the tc notes had been drawn from NA27, UBS4, and other sources.) Over the course of a year, part of which was spent in residence at the Institut in Münster, the Senior New Testament Editor revised all existing tc notes in the NET Bible New Testament and added scores more. In the Second Beta Edition all these tc notes were conformed to the Nestle-Aland 27th edition Greek New Testament (Novum Testamentum Graece), 8th revised printing including papyri 99–116. The changes to the notes are most noticeable with nomenclature for manuscript witnesses: All tc notes in the New Testament now use the same nomenclature as that used by NA27, including the siglum Ï [this should look more like a fancy capital M but does not copy and paste properly]. The reader should consult NA27 for discussion on this nomenclature. In addition, a double dagger (‡) is used in tc notes to indicate the several hundred places where the Greek text underlying the NET Bible differs from NA27; at a glance the reader can now see when the text translated by the NET Bible New Testament differs from that of NA27. This conformity to NA27 increases the quality of the notes tremendously, as it aligns them with the standard critical text of the Greek New Testament used by scholars, pastors, and students all over the world. As a result NET Bible readers will be able to use NA27 more effectively, and readers who use NA27 will see more readily how the process of textual criticism is carried out. In 2004, a joint venture between the German Bible Society and bible.org produced the New English Translation – Novum Testamentum Graece New Testament which combines the full NA27 text with apparatus and appendices along with the NET Bible text and a special edition of the translators’ notes and text-critical notes optimized to assist students of the original Greek. Additional information on this publication is available from http://www.bible.org/diglot.

(Underlining is mine.)

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