The UBS Greek-New Testament

Kicks sooooo much butt!

"Whoa, awesome sexiness..."

For all you Greek readers who have "A Reader's Greek New Testament" published by Zondervan and are thinking about buying the 2nd edition, don't do it!

"Booooooeth!"

Reasons why you should buy the UBS reader instead:
1) Maps! Okay, they're really lame but people get excited about pictures.

2) Never deviates from the UBS text.

3) Perfect Greek font.

4) The notes are formatted into two columns and are super easy to find (unlike the Zondervan "bunching up" of all the italicized notes, remember asking yourself "where the @#&! is #28!?!??!?!")

5) Sam bought it.

6) Words occurring 30x or less are defined contextually and not given some generic gloss as in the Zondervan edition (though sometimes Zondervan gives you a contextual gloss).

7) It parses difficult grammatical forms of all types of words!!! This means you don't always have to be around your "Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament" or BibleWorks/Accordance if you want to be sure about most of your parsing.

8) It has a freaking lexicon in the back. Not sure if the new Zondervan one has that though...

9) It's a hardcover? Whether this is a pro or con depends on you.

10) It has a flimsy gold bookmark thingy! Some people really like that stuff.

It did cost $56 (including tax) though...