The UBS Greek Text

The UBS edition was designed to meet the practical needs of translators of the Greek New Testament. The 4th Edition of the UBS text provides an apparatus that presents the various readings of the many manuscripts available to textual researchers. In some places, a choice between certain well-attested readings will have an important affect upon translation. The apparatus (similar to footnotes) will show the textual evidence for the reading the editors of the UBS text chose. For each of these places, the reading of the text is graded A, B, C, or D, according to whether the reading was adopted by the editors with certainty, near certainty, with difficulty, or with great difficulty. For the convenience of translators, a punctuation apparatus is given below the textual apparatus, showing how the text is punctuated in several other texts and versions. Beneath that, cross-references are given together with specification of the words and phrases to which they refer. The text is set in paragraphs and larger sections, and supplied with section headings in English. The UBS text is widely used among academic scholars and pastors.