Greek-English Interlinear CSB New Testament, Hardcover, Black Letter, NA28 Greek Text, English Gloss, Parsing Tools, Study Bookmark, Full CSB Text, Translation Notes, Easy-to-Read Type

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This is a useful academic resource that recently came out from Holman Publishers. It's the Greek English Interlinear New Testament based on the Nestle-Aland 28th edition of the Greek. This hardcover is a textbook-style volume. It is well made and nice to have on your shelf to beavailable for study purposes.It has a retail price of $59.99. This volume is very useful for someone who is studying biblical Greek or someone who wants to have the original language information as they're studying the Bible for a sermon or academic purposes.FormatIt is in paragraph format. On the side of each page is the English translation. The Greek text is in the original word order, and underneath the Greek are the English gloss terms. You cannot go directly from one language to another. There will always be some differences because words, syntax, and sentence structure do not match one-for-one from one language to another. The gloss terms help you see what the Greek is in literal English form.The bottom outside corners contain some manuscript footnotes, and the center bottom of the pages contain parts-of-speech footnotes. Everything is laid out in a very organized fashion.Ribbon MarkerThe volume has a gold, angle cut, double-sided satin ribbon marker.Greek ChartsThe back of the volume contains Greek charts, which are for beginning Greek grammar and syntax. There is a QR code in this section as well to take you to more resourcesfor learning and reading the Greek New Testament.Reading Tool IncludedAlso, this volume comes with a very simple device that is branded with the CSB logo. It is shiny plastic and has little slits. You can lay this device over the English text, allowing you to read the Greek by itself. Then if you need to look at the English gloss, you can do that very easily by repositioning the device.This volume is great for students, great for individuals in pastoral ministry or any kind of Bible teaching ministry, and great for anyone who really wants to dig into the original language of the New Testament in their studies of God’s Word.

There are a few passages I test to see if the Greek is being translated correctly. I only had two years of koine Greek in college, however, I have kept it close to my heart, and keep learning and studying, as His Word is alive and electrifying and unlike anything else.One passage is Hebrews 12:2, where in almost every English version, it says that Jesus, who “for” the joy set before him…. The Greek word is a very simple word, and it is “αντι” ( where we get our English transliterated word “anti”)— meaning against, in place of, or instead of. It is not the Greek word “γαρ” meaning “for”. When you read it, the way it was written in the Greek, it changes the entire meaning, because instead of Jesus choosing deferred gratification, it lines up with the rest of scripture which states that “sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but a body you prepared for me“ (Heb 10:5) … instead of the joy set before him; so which joy? Read Hebrews chapters 1 through 11, and all the rest of scripture, the joy he had with the father, before allowing himself to be put into a body to save us. It also makes more sense when you read in Peter, that the angels long to look into this salvation thing (1 Pet 1:12) , because it doesn’t make sense even to us why Jesus would give up personal omnipresence to be confined to a body. I don’t see anywhere in Scripture, where he ever gets out of that body. He took an eternal hit to change our eternity forever; and whether you agree with that statement or not, you can’t disagree with what the original language says. It does not say that he went through everything for the joy set before him; but instead of the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorned it’s shame, and sat down the right hand of God the Father. This is not deferred gratification, this is the second person of the trinity, omnipresent God the son, allowing himself to give up and make a huge sacrifice for us of his own personal omnipresence. Although he is omnipresent through the Father and the Holy Spirit, He himself is now in a glorified body, sacrificing what he had with the father before-hand, willingly allowing himself to be put in a body for us. I truly don’t think I could allow myself to be put in the body of an ant to save ants. And that isn’t even a good analogy. But hopefully, through this little note here, you might come to understand and appreciate to a higher degree and deeper level what Jesus (aka “the Λογος»—the spoken Word — John 1), actually sacrificed to bring us home.

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Do you eschew Bible software? Or do you tire of having to look at a screen? Do you wish they made an interlinear in the CSB? Are you okay at Greek but not fantastic? If any of those apply to you, then this volume is for you. It is beautifully typeset. It even includes a handy tool to eliminate the interlinear English so you can focus on the Greek. There's no textual apparatus, nor guide to less common words (cf. "Reader's), but it's still a handy volume. I use it from time to time, but I admit I also use Bible software too.