About the resource, NA27

While working on a preseminary I found something weird: The citing of NA27 doesn't imply "27th edition" but rather "4th edition". What's going on? I know the text is supposed to be the standard issue NA27 and that the "27" stands for the 27th version. I got scolded a little for this on my preseminary, but it was deemed a technicality if not entirely precise. :-/ I'm with Logos Scholar ed. btw.

The NA27 on my Logos: "1993 The Greek New Testament (4th ed.). Federal Republic of Germany: United Bible Societies." The UBS on my Logos is "2006 The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition (with Morphology). Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft."

Need I buy the SESB 3.0 to get this corrected or is there a considerable error to begin with?

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Mark Barnes

It's the 27th edition of Novum Testamentum Graece, which uses the 4th edition of the Greek New Testament.

Novum Testamentum Graece adds its own unique casing, punctuation and paragraph formatting from UBS4. The print version (and the SESB vesion) also add the text-critical notes, that UBS4 doesn't have.

Mark Smith

The actual Greek text of the NA27 is that of the United Bible Societies' 4th edition. The textual apparatus is that of Nestle-Aland 27th edition. I am not sure what the issue was at your pre-seminary, but they probably wanted you to be clear that you are using the 4th edition of the UBS Greek text.

Edit: I see Mark gave you a more detailed answer.