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Errata in ECM Revelation

I, David Robert Palmer, having completed my 2nd Edition of Revelation, then sent my list of proposed errors in the ECM of Revelation to the appropriate person, Professor Martin Karrer in Germany. He vetted them, and also pointed out an error in my list (below). My corrected list of the errors in the Editio Critica Major of Revelation you can download here.

For any of you who purchased my printed edition of Revelation from Amazon, dated April 07, 2025, here are the errata Prof. Karrer pointed out. Go to page 93, the footnotes on Rev. 19:17 numbered 438 and 439, cross out the manuscript 2814 where shown as omitting δευτε συναχθητε εις το δειπνον το μεγα του θεου, and then in footnote 438, add MS 2814 to the list of those omitting only συναχθητε.

(In GA 2814, I forgot that the Bible text is separated by commentary, and the passage in question resumed below some commentary text.)

Both the printed edition of Revelation on Amazon (which now says Produced April 24, 2025) and the electronic PDF edition of Revelation downloadable on this website and in this sentence, are now corrected.

Revelation 2nd Edition

I have finished and published my 2nd edition of Revelation. Almost every footnote has been expanded, revised, or corrected. Mainly because I purchased the Editio Critica Major, but also because I have looked personally at lots of manuscript images myself. There are also an increased number of footnotes, now 542 of them. The critical apparatus, including the endnotes, cite 86 Greek manuscripts, 17 Greek New Testament editions, as well as early versions and Fathers. The main editions collated are the ECM, NA28, SBL, TH (Tyndale House), Robinson-Pierpont, Byzantine Greek, Antoniades, and the Textus Receptus. When the dozens of editions of the Textus Receptus disagree with Scrivener 1894, this is noted, for 5 Erasmus editions, Stephens 1550, Beza, Elzevir, Aldus, Colinaeus, Bengel, and the Complutensian Polyglot. At the end of the book are several tables, including a list of all handwritten Greek manuscripts of the Apocalypse of John, now updated to include more than 330. Another thing that is new is I have added the readings of the Arabic text found in Walton’s Polyglot, though not in all variants. Further, I downloaded and possess my own copies of the main Vulgate texts, and so now their readings are included in many more footnotes than before. I did not put “2nd Edition” in the book title or cover, because then Amazon would make me use a new and different ISBN, and a new link to the book would generate, and all my old links to Amazon on the PDFs that have been downloaded for years, would not lead to the 2nd Edition. However, inside the book in the first couple pages, it says “Produced April 7, 2025.” That’s how you can know it is the 2nd Edition.
Free PDF: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/revwgrk.pdf
Paper and Ink edition on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958612103
Download free or purchase the Apocalypse of John

Friberg Explanation

New Upload: A PDF of Timothy Friberg’s paper, A MODEST EXPLANATION FOR THE LAYMAN OF IDEAS RELATED TO DETERMINING THE TEXT OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT. Here is the download link.

This paper explains the Byzantine Priority position in Textual Criticism. The PDF is 1.5 MB in size. The document title for download purposes is Modest-Explanation-Friberg.pdf

July 21 update

Hello brothers and sisters, here is what has been happening in the last two weeks.

Roughly a dozen people in China, using the search engine Baidu, downloaded the PDF of 1 Peter with Greek. In the last few months it is apparent that China loosened their Internet censorship somewhat, because for years I got no traffic from Baidu. It opens up only intermittently. Anyway, there must have been a co-ordinated study of the First Epistle of Peter going on there.

There were several downloads of the gospel of Luke in north African countries. Speaking of Luke, that is the favorite Bible book in the country of Iran, judging by the history of downloads from my site.

I started a Facebook page for Bibletranslation.ws. Please visit it and “like it” if you will.

The document I am hard at work on is the Revelation with Greek file. I am perfecting the table of manuscripts of Revelation, and have expanded the footnotes. UPDATE: This now published in paper and ink in paperback form on Amazon. I tell you, my free PDF of this document which you can download, represents a tremendous amount of work over the years that you are getting for free. You should download it while you can.

Robinson-Pierpont 2017 GNT

The 2017 edition of the Robinson-Pierpont Greek New Testament

I have completed and uploaded a PDF of the Robinson-Pierpont 2017 edition of “The New Testament in the Original Greek, Byzantine Text Form.” I compiled it from raw text CCAT files sent to me by its author, Maurice A. Robinson, PhD. The PDF is now 622 pages, 13 MB in size.

The 2017 edition has very few, and minor, text changes from the 2005 version, including one corrected error of reading (based on misinterpretation of Hoskier’s data) at Rev 2:17 (now omit φαγειν) and also a few places where a marginal reading has now become the main text and vice versa. Mainly it has updates and corrections in capitalization, accentuation, and punctuation, plus some previously missing iota subscripts.

This PDF is designed to default to open with the bookmarks panel, or links bar, showing on the left, so that you can click on the name of a book or heading and it takes you there like an Internet link. If you are using a combination of device and software app in which this is not true, there may be an option in the “view” menu by which you may choose to view these bookmarks or links under, for example, “navigation panels.”

This PDF was designed to enable you to copy and paste from it, and also to print it. Download the Robinson-Pierpont 2017 GNT. Also, you can search in it for a verse reference, e.g., Lk 4:7.

If rather than the edition with all the variants you want a minimal version, you can download an edition of the Robinson-Pierpont 2017 GNT without the variants and without the Appendix here. This document is 403 pages rather than 639, and its size is 9 MB rather than 12 MB. Also available, for textual criticism experimentation, is an all-majuscule / uncial edition. That was the PDF link; you can also download a Microsoft Word “.docx” edition of the Robinson-Pierpont 2017 Greek New Testament in all majuscule.

Continuous-text MSS by century

You can also download editions of some of my Greek-English documents, but with the Robinson-Pierpont Greek text, and the English translation thereof. You can download them right here as well. Completed are: Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of John, The General Epistles and Revelation.

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Greek Cursive Ligatures

Quick-Reference Greek Ligature Guide

Many of us read printed editions or transcriptions of New Testament Greek frequently. But unless you are collating or reading minuscules often, you can forget the “ligatures” used in cursive manuscripts. Ligatures are the shorthand mergings or combinations of Greek letters that are found in cursive minuscule Greek manuscripts. I myself was reading minuscules often in the early 2000’s, but then after I stopped doing that, I have been forgetting the ligatures. So I use this guide myself when reading minuscules.

Here I offer free download of a quick-reference Greek ligature guide in PDF. It has two narrow columns. So narrow, that you can make it a sliver on one side of your screen or monitor, and still have plenty of room for your mains documents. The first column is the more familiar form of a Greek letter or number, and on the right of that, a column showing various ligatures for that letter alone or ligatures for combinations of letters that start with that letter. It mostly uses Dr. Vernon Kooy’s character set, but also some others. I know that this will be useful to people in this group. The download is free, but you can also order a printed and bound edition from Lulu. Also, if someone has made a font or knows of a font that includes one or more ligatures than I have included in this document, please let me know, and I will add it to the document.

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Textus Receptus Jude

I have completed and uploaded editions of the Epistle of Jude translated from the Textus Receptus and from the Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine textform. These, like my eclectic edition, show the readings of 62 Greek manuscripts plus 12 Greek New Testament editions, including the Antoniades, Von Soden, Pickering, Tregelles, SBL, NA28, Wesctott and Hort, Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus, Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus, Hodges/Farstad, Tommy Wasserman, and David Robert Palmer editions. These are PDFs in landscape mode.

Download the Textus Receptus Jude

Download the Robinson-Pierpont Jude

You can also download whole Bible editions based on the Textus Receptus and the Robinson-Pierpont.

Robinson-Pierpont PDF updated

Due to feedback from the downloading public, I have scrapped the pdf I was offering of the Robinson-Pierpont Greek New Testament, and re-compiled a pdf from a Unicode text document which I obtained directly from Dr. Maurice Robinson. You can download that here. Note: there will be a table on contents in a column to the left in the pdf, in which you can click on the book names to go directly to that like an Internet link. However, if you are viewing the document in your browser, the table will not show up. You have to right-click the link, choose “save as,” and download it to your hard drive. Then, after that, when you open the document, the links will show up.