Need These Original Language Texts in User Bibles

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

I need the below Greek/Hebrew manuscripts made available as User Bibles. I have the printed editions, but having an electronic copy in Accordance format would be so handy as well.

 

http://www.tbsbibles.org/shop.php?sess=dmAhOXllIChoeig8ZHQpODMtLmRlLzMlPXZ6KSNhajstY3YiPnFiMyBseCc%2FYnY4EMLO

http://www.tbsbibles.org/shop.php?sess=dmAhOXllIChoeig8ZHQpODMtLmRlLjAlPXZ6XlpdWzktdXYhPmB0MyB6aic%2FdHk4IWBrJAzByA%3D%3D

 

Can someone assist in securing the manuscripts and preparing User Bibles of these?

 

Thanks!

[Alistair]

Well, the "Textus Receptus as prepared by F.H.A. Scrivener in the late 1800s" should be in the public domain.

 

There are several e-texts available.

 

For example, here is one: https://archive.org/stream/TextusReceptusscrivener1860/TextusReceptus-StephensScrivener1860#page/n5/mode/2up

But it is a scan.

 

You can find a modern e-text here: https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1894-Scrivener-Greek-New-Testament-TR1894/#booklist

But it has neither accents nor breathings.

 

Off the top of my head, I don't know if the Hebrew text underlying the KJV was ever constructed the way Scrivener did with the Greek text.

Edited July 25, 2015 by Alistair

[Michael Miles]

Your first reference link is for a combined Hebrew / Greek text.  The Hebrew text of this volume is Christian David Ginsburg's Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible.  There are no e-texts available for this version of the Hebrew Bible.  I may start scanning a copy in my library and make it available at some time in the future.  That, and the 4 volume set of Ginsburg's Massorah.

 

Between my other studies, I'm contemplating translating Ginsburg's notes into English.  Too bad that I need to spend my days turning wrenches and running around with electrical meters, otherwise I'd have been on this years ago.

[Michael Miles]

The Hebrew text of your first reference link, without Ginsburg's notes, is an unmodified First Edition of Jacob Ben Chayim's Massoretic Recension, printed by Bomberg, at Venice, in the year 1524-5.

 

*EDIT*

In Ginsburg's own Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible, he himself states that he used the First Rabbinic Bible (noted above), although most web sites that I encounter indicate that he used the Second Edition.  I doubt that Ginsburg flubbed this reference, seeing that he purposely italicized the word 'First', to bring attention to it.

 

That being said, the Second Edition is available at the Internet Archives:

 

https://archive.org/details/The_Second_Rabbinic_Bible_Vol_1

 

https://archive.org/details/The_Second_Rabbinic_Bible_Vol_2

 

https://archive.org/details/The_Second_Rabbinic_Bible_Vol_3

 

https://archive.org/details/The_Second_Rabbinic_Bible_Vol_4

Edited July 26, 2015 by Michael Miles

[Λύχνις Δαν]

You could also request Accordance modules for these. The GNT has been inquired about before : http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/topic/15341-gnt-scriveners-trinitarian-bible-society/. The other, not so far as I can see in the forums anyway.

 

If there is an etext of this already encoded in Unicode (at a stretch in another encoding) it should be importable with some work. The biblegateway version is not obviously downloadable as a single file. You could check with them to see if they have a downloadable complete file. If they do and have no objection to using it as a source we could check it out. Of course the PDF requires all the joys of ancient Greek OCR. I see it has notes as well which would not be supportable in a User Bible, and page notes which would be interesting in the OCR. So its work.

 

Thx

D

[R. Mansfield]

Nathan, the Greek New Testament (Textus Receptus) with Strong's (GNT-TRS), which you should have in your Accordance Library, is virtually identical to the Greek NT at the second link you posted. 

[R. Mansfield]

Nathan, I somewhat take it back. I just looked at what I wrote in the link that Daniel Semler offered above, and I now remember that the Trinity Greek text is Scrivener vs. our GNT-TRS that is Stephanus' text. They probably have more in common with each other than either would have with the NA/USB text, but they are different.