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Title: not quite up to the mark
Review: The Aland edition of the Greek New Testament (intended for translators, they say) is wide off the mark. This does not apply to the text itself (it is the Nestle-Aland 27th ed., and it's the best we can have) but to the critical apparatus offered.First of all, very few textual variants are chosen (and arbitrarily so), so that you may miss important evidence even for some crucial points. Of course, of these few variants we are told how all the Coptic versions stand, and what Athanasius (remember him?) quoted about. If the variants are chosen haphazardly, what is the point of all this, specially for translators?The third edition had a most elegant, big greek typeface, a delight to the eyes. In the fourth one, we've lost even that.So, stand by (or even switch to) the Nestle-Aland 27th ed., just in greek or bilingual. The apparatus, the introduction and the appendixes make it a truly scientific feat!
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