Tregelles vs. Nestle 1904

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Jonathan Robie
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Tregelles vs. Nestle 1904

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Tyndale House is coming out with a new and corrected version of Tregelles. Our syntax trees currently use either SBLGNT or Nestle 1904, which is more freely licensed.

I'm curious about the relative advantages of Tregelles vs. Nestle 1904 as a Greek text. What advantages does each have? Is one clearly superior to the other?
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Re: Tregelles vs. Nestle 1904

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For a quick glance (or a more thorough one), the CSNTM has high quality images of the pages of Tregelles' GNT - http://www.csntm.org/PrintedBook/ViewBo ... wTestament
As does archive.org (however it seems to be missing the last few pages of the introduction, and first 8 verses of Matthew 1) - https://archive.org/details/greeknewtestamen01treg (Vol 1 - the other volumes are easily found).

The few differences I see is the Latin translation next to the Greek Text, and each textual difference starts a new line in the apparatus, not too dissimilar to Swete's LXX style. Obviously doesn't contain the same critical marks as Nestle-Aland does.

Make for easier reading of the textual differences, albeit will probably be a larger book. But we don't mind larger books now, do we? :)
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Re: Tregelles vs. Nestle 1904

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Tregelles dramatically improved in quality part way through as a result of manuscript discoveries & accesses. The epistles are better than the gospels.
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Re: Tregelles vs. Nestle 1904

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Tregelles is a very interesting critical edition of the mid-19th century. It's of interest mainly for its historical value in the development of New Testament textual criticism. It's been superseded by Westcott and Hort. Nestle is a compromise of Westcott and Hort with other critical editions of the day, and the whole has been perceived to be better than its parts.

The (re)edition by Tyndale House is of interest because they are trying to go back to the manuscripts' orthography. (I don't know all the details.)
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