ANALYTICAL GREEK NEW TESTAMENT

The Analytical Greek New Testament, edited by Barbara and Timothy Friberg, is a unique scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament text that includes detailed grammatical analysis directly beneath each Greek word. Here’s a summary of its content and purpose:

Purpose and Background:

• Developed as part of a computational linguistics research project during Timothy Friberg’s Ph.D. work.
• Initially built as a computer-stored database to analyze Greek word order, it gained popularity among biblical scholars, leading to its publication.
• Supported by the University of Minnesota Computer Center and Summer Institute of Linguistics, with contributions from many linguists and Greek scholars.

Key Features:

• Grammatical Tags: Each word in the Greek text is annotated with grammatical tags indicating part of speech, case, gender, number, person, mood, voice, and more.
• Complex Tags: Some entries include secondary tags indicating grammatical function, with symbols like slashes (/), daggers (†), ampersands (&), and plus signs (+) to denote relationships or alternatives.
• Appendix: Offers a comprehensive explanation of the tagging system and grammatical assumptions.
• Greek Text Basis: Based on the third edition (1975) of The Greek New Testament by the United Bible Societies, excluding textual apparatus and headings.

Structure:

• Contains the full New Testament Greek text with interlinear grammatical analysis.
• The introduction explains how to read and interpret the grammatical annotations.
• Designed to aid scholars, students, and translators in detailed Greek language study.

This resource combines deep linguistic insights with biblical scholarship to provide an indispensable tool for analyzing the New Testament in its original language.