Welcome to The Shaun Tabatt Show! Today my special guest is Philip Comfort and we’re talking about A Commentary on the Manuscripts and Text of the New Testament (Kregel Academic, 2015).
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About The Book:
This small and insightful volume is an essential resource for the committed student of Greek New Testament. Using the same trim size as UBS and NA28 Greek New Testaments, this reference commentary, based on the latest research, is designed to aid the reader in understanding the textual reliability, variants, and translation issues for each passage in the New Testament.
Unlike any other commentary, this volume contains commentary on actual manuscripts rather than a single version of the Greek New Testament. There are nearly 6,000 existing manuscripts, and just as many textual variants, with thousands of manuscripts having been discovered since the time of the King James Version. This commentary is filled with notes on significant textual variants between these manuscripts.

About The Author:
For the last 25 years Philip Comfort has been a senior editor at Tyndale House Publishers. He has written two novels, three collections of poetry, and over fifteen volumes on New Testament studies. He and his wife Georgia live in South Carolina.
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Explore Additional Resources:
Here are some of the resources mentioned in this episode:
Books:
- A Commentary on the Manuscripts and Text of the New Testament (Comfort)
- New Testament Text and Translation Commentary (Comfort)
- Encountering the Manuscripts (Comfort)
- The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (4th Edition) (Metzger)
- The Text of the Earliest new Testament Greek Manuscripts (Comfort)
- A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Metzger)
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