{Book Review} The Greek-English New Testament

Crossway has recently published The Greek-English New Testament: Tyndale House, Cambridge Edition and English Standard Version. I, for one, cannot tell you how excited I am about this new edition! Read on to find out why. 

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The Greek-English New Testament: Tyndale House, Cambridge Edition and English Standard Version

Crossway published a Greek New Testament: Tyndale House, Cambridge Edition in 2017, and then a Reader’s Edition in 2018. Both of those volumes are wonderful, and they both have their place depending on where the reader is with their competency in Greek. For those who are students of the Greek language, and yet don’t feel comfortable quite yet being too far away from an English translation, then this new Greek-English edition is a phenomenal resource! 

This is not an interlinear Greek-English (which Crossway does offer), but a Bible that provides the Greek on the left page and the English on the right page. This is one of my favorite aspects of this new volume! I love attempting to read the Greek on my own, and being able to quickly glance at the ESV translation (my personal translation of choice) directly to the right. It’s just right for those who aren’t quite a beginner in the Greek language, but also not quite intermediate-advanced either. So far, it’s my favorite format for reading Greek. 

The book itself is stunning! I have the hardcover which is all black. It contains one black ribbon marker, and it also comes with a nice, sturdy slip cover. The spine was kept quite simple with the Crossway symbol at the very bottom, the “Greek-English New Testament” at the top. The font size is just right, and the paper quality is very nice. 

Perhaps some of the things that readers will find strange will include:

• The ordering of the books. This is not the standard ordering of the canon that we find in our Protestant Bibles today. The order that the New Testament books are presented is this: Gospels, Acts, the Catholic Epistles, the Pauline corpus, and Revelation. I must admit, this is very strange to me. I think I would have preferred the usual ordering, but I also kind of like the reasoning behind this decision (you can learn more about it in the introduction). 
• The paragraphing of the Greek text. In addition to that, an interesting method called ekthesis is used for begin and indicate a new paragraph, but this is (to us modern readers) very strange because it’s actually a reverse-indentation. 

This Bible is absolutely beautiful, and I believe it will prove to be a go-to resource for students of Greek. Much hard work has gone into the publishing of this edition, and I think this will be a major work that will be used by man in the academy and pastorate. I cannot recommend this new edition highly enough! Tolle lege, take up and read! 

Disclaimer: My thanks to Crossway for providing me with a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. The opinions expressed are my own.