The text of Palmer's Greek Testament should be very interesting because it is the continuous text of the Greek readings adopted by the Revision Committee for English Revised Version (1885). It is interesting especially because the Committee includes, among others, F.J.A. Hort, B.F. Westcott, F.H.A. Scrivener, and S.P. Tregelles (who died six years before the publication of ERV New Testament in 1881), and they published their own Greek New Testaments. That is why I purchased this book.
But I find the errors made in the process of bookmaking are very disappointing. At the bottom of the cover of the book, it says "COMPLIED" for "COMPILED," and the subtitle on the title page says "ADAPTED" for "ADOPTED." Most seriously, the editor of the books is said to be "E. H. Palmer" and he is further identified as "Edward Henry Palmer, born 1840, died 1882." Now E.H. Palmer cannot be the editor because he was an "English Orientalist; lord almoner's professor of Arabic, Cambridge (1871-81); during Egyptian rebellion (1882) sent by Gladstone on pacificatory mission among Arabs; interpreter in chief to force in Egypt; ambushed and murdered by Arab robbers" (Webster's Biographical Dictionary, 1980).
The editor of the book is The Ven. Edwin Palmer, D.D., Archdeacon of Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford. He was also on the Revision Committee.
But the text of the book itself seems to be intact since it appears to be a photocopy reproduction of the original although nowhere does it say so explicitly.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2011
I consider this to be one of the most sacred bibles in print - As its the original Greek text for many of today's bibles
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