Thursday, July 3, 2025

Byzantine-friendly New Testaments in the Marketplace

Over a decade ago I noted the rise of four English New Testaments based on the Byzantine Text, and I decided to see how things stand now in 2025.

The World English Bible continues to be offered in multiple editions.

Gary Zeolla's Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament remains available. 

 
Paul Esposito's English Majority Text Version is still available.

G. Allen Walker's Modern Literal Version is offered at mlvbible.info.

Laurent Cleenewerck's Eastern Orthodox New Testament (my personal favorite) is on the market in a nice portable edition at New Rome Press and on Amazon.  

Adam Boyd has released The Text-Critical English New Testament: Byzantine Text Version.

The New Tyndale Version is also available in a variety of editions, including the military-themed Leader's Bible.

A cornucopia of resources about the Byzantine Text, including links to PDFs of the 2005 Robinson-Pierpont compilation of the Byzantine Text and Robinson's essay, The Case for Byzantine Priority, is still available at https://sites.google.com/a/wmail.fi/greeknt/home/greeknt .






I do not subscribe to Byzantine Priority, but I applaud these English versions which help bring the church out of the shadow of Lucianic Recension advocacy and closer to the text God inspired and to the message he intended (and continues to intend) to convey to his people.