Robinson-Pierpont Greek New Testament (GRCRNP)

Overview

A critical edition of the Greek New Testament representing the Byzantine/Majority Textform, edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont, first published in 1991 as The New Testament in the Original Greek According to the Byzantine/Majority Textform. This is not a translation but a scholarly reconstruction of the Greek text based on the Byzantine text-type, which constitutes the majority of surviving New Testament manuscripts, in contrast to the eclectic Nestle-Aland/UBS text. Robinson and Pierpont jointly edited and refined the text during the period 1976 to 1991, first releasing printed textual notes in 1979 and a continuous-text electronic form in 1986. [1] Their first published edition appeared in 1991, followed by a second edition in 2005 and a further revision in 2018. [1] The editors employed a method they termed "reasoned transmissionalism," which evaluates the wider scope of manuscript transmission throughout history without the anti-Byzantine bias characteristic of other text-critical approaches. [2] The 2005 edition was released into the public domain, permitting unrestricted copying and distribution. [1]

Language and People

Ancient Greek (ISO 639-3: grc). [Glottolog: anci1242]

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