Numeric Greek New Testament: Panin's Greek Critical Text from Numerics

This is Ivan Panin’s classic Greek Critical Text of the New Testament, published in 1934. It is a masterpiece of textual criticism, believed by Panin to represent the original autographs of the Greek. His discovery in 1890 of the complex system of Numerics underlying the text, and subsequent 40 years of research produced a powerful system by which to the text ‘self-checks’. When doubt is introduced as to the veracity of a passage, it can be resolved by appealing to the multitude of numeric patterns which progress throughout every word, passage, and indeed, in through the scope of the entire New Testament. From small details to issues such as the validity of the last twelve verses of Mark’s Gospel, Bible Numerics has been demonstrated to shine a clear light on the proper reading. When this work was published in 1934, it departed from the popular Westcott & Hort text in some surprising ways (though most often supporting their findings), and in the interim, scholarship has inched closer and closer to what Panin painstakingly transcribed. It might be mentioned that Panin is one of the few competent scholars of Textual Criticism who believed every word of the Bible to be “God-breathed”. Whether for general use or a scholarly masterpiece, this Greek edition of the New Testament is unique and refreshingly well-researched.