November 2003

Index: Greek Language—Greek Text

Ballard’s GreekNT

Biola’s Bible

Peter Ballard’s Greek NT with Parsing Codes [Index] [Home]

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/gnt/index.html

This website was launched in 1997, and was a contribution to the online community at that time. The text was the UBS4, but only transliterated, even though each word was parsed using a standard code. Now that numerous Greek NT texts are available on the web using Greek fonts, with parsing popup windows, this website has lost its original contribution. As the author acknowledges on the website, “My site was pretty cool when I first launched it in 1997-98, but maybe it's time it was retired.”

Biola University’s Unbound Bible [Index] [Home]

http://unbound.biola.edu/

Biola’s mission is to provide original texts and Bible translations freely to the nations of the world. The Greek text is available (NA 26/UBS4). You can search for a word or a passage, using English or Greek.

Tony Fisher’s Greek NT [Index] [Home]

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/

This website is on a web server hosted by the University of York in the United Kingdom, to which students may post their own web sites. The author stated: “I am a student of New Testament Greek. I am in no sense an expert. I wrote the programs which [sic] implement the interface in order to learn NT Greek better.” The NT Greek text is presented as images (GIF files), which means no Greek font is necessary. Further, recent, technical browser innovations, such as JavaScript, Java, client-side image maps, etc., are not used, making the system fast and browser-friendly to most versions. You may select a passage or search a word. To select a passage, you select a book and chapter. The text is presented as a GIF image. The individual words are hot-linked to a parser. Click on a word, and a parsing information window is displayed for that word. However, no English gloss is provided for the word. One also can search by word. Basic Greek searching is implemented for a given word, as occurring close to another given word, with a given root (base or lemma), or by grammatical category. You can specify a Greek word, but only with Latin transliteration. The Greek text is derived from the parsed and lemmatized Pennsylvania CCAT edition of NA 26, as corrected and expanded by James Tauber, to which this author added his own corrections. We regret to say that the author has passed away since posting this material.

Robert Fowler’s Gospels and Acts [Index] [Home]

http://homepages.bw.edu/~rfowler/bible/index.html

Only the Gospels and Acts, this website is a transcription by Robert M. Fowler, who teaches at the Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH. Fowler used the Scholar’s Press SPIonic font (free download). The texts have transcription errors, so must be used with caution and constantly checked against a printed standard edition.

Michael Haggett’s Greek NT Text [Index] [Home]

http://website.lineone.net/~ntgreek/f-ind-01.html

Michael Haggert’s site is nicely laid out, but Apple’s Safari browser sometimes will not load the page. He uses a newer Unicode Athena font for the Greek, available for a free download. (The Unicode Cardo font works on Mac OS X.) He provides an online text of the New Testament that he asserts is “substantially similar to the ‘Standard’ text used in both NA27 and UBS4.” What he means, however, by this assertion is not clarified. Thus, the text offered on this site should be checked against the standard texts before implementation in study or research. For further information on Haggett’s site, see the section “Greek Language—Grammar Aids” below.

David Harley’s Biblon 2000 [Index] [Home]

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Biblon/biblon2000.html

The site provides the text of the NT (NA 26), beautifully rendered, although slow to load, with a frame below giving variant readings and supporting witnesses that are interactive with the edited text in the frame above. For example, click on a variant, and that reading is placed in the text above at the point of variation. From the web site: “This project is the work of David Harley, a graduate in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and currently a student of languages and religion at the University of Queensland in Australia. Its overall aim is to try and make use of some of the newer features of the main web browsers to create an on-line version of the Greek New Testament which will not only be easy to use and have dynamic capabilities, but just as importantly will be a well presented and elegant rendering of this text. To that end this site makes heavy use of Dynamic HTML/Javascript techniques plus HTML 4.0 and Style Sheets features.”

John Hurt’s HTML Bible [Index] [Home]

http://www.greeknewtestament.com/index2.htm

John Hurt of Elmwood, TN has provided in HTML format (browser accessible) the Greek NT text in parallel versions (Stephanus 1550, Scrivener 1894, “Byzantine Majority,” and “Alexandrian”), with differences among them marked in bold. Also available are the Latin Vulgate and numerous English versions. Each verse is displayed with all versions vertically distributed. Navigation buttons are numerous and make easy maneuvering through the text, both at the top of a verse display and in a framed vertical window to the left. (One can choose an unframed display as well.) This software can be downloaded and used independently of an Internet connection. Hurt charges a minimal fee for a download. The Hurt site has numerous other biblical texts and software offerings and is worth exploring. The site, unfortunately, does not display properly on a Mac, because of its use of a proprietary Windows 95 Symbol font.

Online Greek Bible [Index] [Home]

http://www.greekbible.com/

This site provides the Greek NT text (NA 26, UBS 3rd). You choose the font—Symbol, Images, Athena, Palatino Linotype, All Caps; reason for options provided—then search for a passage. The text comes up, with words hot-linked to a parser, pronunciation, and gloss. This site has a nicer text display and parser window than Fisher’s Greek NT site. However, this site does not do any word, word combination, or grammatical searches as does Fisher’s site. Neither the sponsor of the site nor their mission statement is indicated anywhere on the web site, but you can make a donation through PayPal (!)

Perseus Greek New Testament [Index] [Home]

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0155

An amazing site covering a huge range of Greek and Roman literature of the ancient world, along with other areas of art, archeology, and images. The page output can be configured for original languages. The Westcott and Hort Greek text is searchable by passage. Any word in a passage may be clicked on to bring up a parser using Liddell-Scott’s lexicon, and including various statistics regarding that word in Greek literature. (Note: Perseus sometimes takes a while to load.)

Marilyn Phemister’s Greek NT Audio Files [Index] [Home]

http://www.audiogreek.0catch.com/

Scroll down to the bottom of the opening page and you will see listed New Testament books by chapter. If you have RealAudio installed (free download) you can click on a chapter, and the spoken Greek will be streamed to your computer. The Greek text is the (free) Westcott-Hort (1881), which is close to the NA26. A CD-ROM is now available of the same files converted to MP3 format. Phemister recognizes that her pronunciation in a few details may vary from that of others, but she attempts to use what is generally regarded as the academic tradition, even though that too has its own disagreements. You do have to get used to the nature of her particular voice and the recording medium itself, which is recorded adequately but not professionally. This acclamation, however, happens within a few minutes of consistent listening, and eventually you are paying attention to her voice less and less and absorbing the Greek more and more. For audio comprehension of spoken Greek, this website is a tremendous service to Greek students.

Maurice Robinson’s Greek NT [Index] [Home]

http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/GNT/books.html

The Greek text works with Windows 95 Symbol font only. Maurice Robinson has taken the basic Westcott-Hort 1881 Greek text and provided bracketed material to indicate the NA26 readings in an additional apparatus. Unfortunately, the text is neither searchable nor linked to any parser.