Good News Publishers, owner of Crossway Books, publisher of the English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), in cooperation with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany (INTF), has announced it will soon be releasing an app that will be updating the text of the ESV New Testament in real time.
Crossway liaison officer Otto Nobetter said, "With the incredible reliance upon smart phones and tablets by Christians today, along with the endless radical changes being made to the Greek text of the New Testament at INTF, due especially to use of the new Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, we thought the time had come for an app that will provide Christians with the latest changes being made to the text of the New Testament as soon as possible. Thanks to a special agreement between Crossway and the INTF, Crossway will be notified every time a change is made to the Greek text of the New Testament. Once we've been notified, we will immediately provide the appropriate English translation and update the text of the ESV accordingly via the app."
Apologist James White was pleased with the announcement saying, on his popular Dividing Line program, "What this means is that, thanks to modern technology and scholarship, the ESV Bible you have on your phone today won't be the same ESV Bible you have on your phone tomorrow, because the text of the New Testament is always changing. As things stand now, because of the new Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, I have to wait for the INTF to publish hard copies of the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) in order to know what the latest accepted readings are. But, thanks to this new app from Crossway, we'll be able to know what the accepted readings are in real time, as soon as they're released from the INTF in Münster."
At the time this article was published, Crossway hadn't yet set a release date for the app, saying it was still in the development stage. It will likely be released sometime before 2020.
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