Category: Bible
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All Imperatives in the New Testament
All 1,098 imperatives in the New Testament, listed in both Nestle-Aland’s Novum Testamentum and the New American Standard Bible (1977). Note, some are requests and not commands. Also, note who is speaking to whom. Context is very important. Ref NA27 NASB77 Mat. 2:8 καὶ πέμψας αὐτοὺς εἰς Βηθλέεμ εἶπεν, Πορευθέντες ἐξετάσατε ἀκριβῶς περὶ τοῦ παιδίου· ἐπὰν δὲ…
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Places Quoted or Alluded to in the New Testament
This table is translated from Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition (NA27), Appendix “IV. LOCI CITATI VEL ALLEGATI” and covers both the Old Testament (A. EX VETERE TESTAMENTO) and pagan Greek writings (B. E SCRIPTORIBUS GRAECIS). All acronyms are based on the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible or the Society of Biblical Literature’s…
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Books of the Bible, Abbreviated in English and German
This table is for those of us who get confused by the way our edition of Nestle-Aland’s Greek New Testament (Novum Testamentum Graece) records its abbreviations of biblical references. Now confused no more! Here are the most pertinent abbreviations found in NA27/28 for my study of Old Testament quotations and allusions in the New Testement: Matthew (Mt),…
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How Your Bible Changed, and Why: No. 4. So What? Explaining the Data
Last post, we made tools for analyzing changes between various editions of a number of Bible translations. These tools are called critical apparati (singular, apparatus). They concisely list and locate all the variations between two or more editions, as in this example comparing the English Standard Version (ESV) from the years 2011 and 2016: Verse Ref.…
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How Your Bible Changed, and Why: No. 3. The Collation Process
In the beginning was the Word … Last post, we covered the process of digitizing editions of the Bible that are only available in print, cleaning them up, and then formatting them so they can be machine readable and easily compared with other digital editions. We also saw how the process isn’t so easy…
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How Your Bible Changed, and Why: No. 2. In the Beginning … Overview
The Process of Tracking Changes to Our Bibles Last post we noted that there should be some sort of central audit for noting all changes made to each edition of every major English Bible translation, especially in light of changes made to the New International Version (NIV 2011), English Standard Version (ESV 2016). To start that process, I…
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How Your Bible Changed, and Why: No. 1. Introduction
Bible Changes Got My Attention After reading the changes made to the New International Version (NIV, 2011 ed.) and hearing how Good News Publishers (i.e., Crossway) has repented of its intent to fix for all perpetuity the 2016 edition of the English Standard Version (ESV), I decided to survey changes made to all the major English versions of the Bible.…