''The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition'', also known as the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), is a critically edited edition of the Greek

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

published by

Logos Bible Software Logos Bible Software is a digital library application developed by Faithlife Corporation. It is designed for electronic Bible study. In addition to basic eBook functionality, it includes extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality and ...

and the

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in October 2010. It was edited by Michael W. Holmes. It is also published in paperback form. The SBLGNT features an apparatus that records differences not among manuscripts, but rather from other published editions of the Greek New Testament. According to the editors this is a function of a "reading edition" that calls attention to text critical issues. The text was created by starting with the

Westcott and Hort ''The New Testament in the Original Greek'' is a Greek-language version of the New Testament published in 1881. It is also known as the Westcott and Hort text, after its editors Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828 ...

text and then comparing it to Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont, and the text underlying the NIV. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, a permissive license that allows royalty-free commercial and non-commercial use. The open licensing of the SBLGNT was a design goal of the text and has been heralded as an important resource for academic publishing.

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* SBL Greek New Testamen
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* Rebasing MorphGNT off SBLGNT http://jtauber.com/blog/2011/01/18/rebasing-morphgnt-off-sblgnt/ * Review of SBLGNT http://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-of-sbl-gnt-in-gospels-by-wieland.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Sbl Greek New Testament Greek New Testament Biblical criticism New Testament editions