| | New Testament in the Original Greek: According to the Byzantine-Majority Textform |  | Creators: Maurice A. Robinson, William G. Pierpont, William David Mcbrayer
Publisher: Original Word Pub
Category: Book
Buy Used: $75.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3110219
Media: Paperback
Pages: 510
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0962654434
Dewey Decimal Number: 225.48
EAN: 9780962654435
ASIN: 0962654434
Publication Date: August 1991
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Condition: soft cover. Publisher: The Original Word Publishers Date: 1991 Condition: Very Good 0962654434
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 Balanced and Logical June 17, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After wandering between extremes of KJV-only stupidity (I DID read Burgon and his would-be followers) and patchwork resulting from the incredulity of modernism (I was never able to swallow it), I got in touch with what, so far, seems to be a balanced position. Before buying, I had read Robinson's article on Byzantine Textform on the internet, and felt impressed by its equity. So, I have naturally transferred my reliance to the nicely presented edition of Robinson and Pierpoint. It is impressive the description of the story of Mr. Robinson on the back jacket flap, who started as a reasoned eclecticist and, gradually, open-mindedly, evolved to his present and much more pious, yet educated, respectful position toward the Word of God. It is an instrument to be on the shelf of every serious student and lover of the Word.
2005 Edition December 30, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Robinson and Pierpont apply unbiased principles of textual criticism to the thousands of hand copied manuscripts and arrive at the consensus text that dominated the New Testament church for its first thousand years. This book is that consensus text. Even though the text is unaccented and unpunctuated, it is a collectable reference that marks a turning point in the field of New Testament Textual Criticism.
If you cannot find a copy of this 1991 edition, note that Robinson and Pierpont have a new edition available here on Amazon.com: ISBN 0-7598-0077-4
 Orality and the Text May 3, 2005
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
What adherents of the majority text don't understand is that the New Testament writings are based on an oral culture. The understanding of those who made copies of the texts was not that every letter was holy (that came later and started with the masoretic text), but that minor grammatical variations as they tend to happen when you repeat a text orally were legitimate. Also, what did not exist at that time was a first, second, third, etc. edition; there was simply no print. So, when an author decided make amendments to his already published text he had no way of signifying those amendments or giving the revised text the mark "second revised edition". The different manuscript readings reflect the oral situation and the minor variations resulting from it, and, if author's revisions did take place, also these. One should never forget that the manuscript variations of the New Testament are really minor and very rarely result in significant changes of meaning. That is because the tradition was relaxed - it was oral but at the same time accurate because one did know how to stick to the meaning. The different manuscripts reflect little playful stylistic games which did not alter the text but preserved the freedom orality offers.
In order to get a picture of what was written down by the authors and those who made copies of the texts one has to get access to the entire spectrum of variations. And this is what the Robinson edition does not offer. At best, it offers a late antique 'masoretic' tradition which bacame mainstream, but it does not give an insight into the stylistic games of the first Christians. The Majority text does not really breathe because it lost contact to the oral world.
Better then Farstad/Hodges book on Greek Majority Text July 19, 2001
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Much better quality both in print quality and in content then "The Greek New Testament According to Majority Text by Arthur L. Farstad (Editor), Zane C. Hodges (Editor)". The binding quality is simply superb and the Greek lettering is easy to read. The author seem to have avoided allowing his own personal believes (what ever they might be) influence his selection of Greek text and has followed a better method then Farstad/Hodges (which used von Soden's method) of deciding what is the majority reading. Therefore the Greek is closer to the Textus Receptus reading which the translators of the King James Version of the Holy Bible used. As much as I like the "Interlinear KJV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English by George Ricker Berry", I have to say I prefer this book. The reason why is because the book by Berry is very badly printed by Zondervan Publishing House. The Greek text is simply unreadable in places and the typesetting, choice of Greek font and layout (not straight in some places).
Good, but with features not everone will appreciate October 1, 1999
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
Surely a very nice edition. Potential buyers should however know that the text is in "manuscript" style , i.e. it has no "critical aparatuses" and "no breathing marks, accents, punctuation, paragraphing, capitalization, or diacritical marks"! (Quoted from the preface.)
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