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Guardian Press, 2026 — a deeper look at the edition, its apparatus, and how to get a copy.
This edition is the fruit of a four-year project. The preface is signed by “The Editors,” dated August 1, 2026, from Nashville, Tennessee.
The volume presents the Greek New Testament according to the Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Textform, with a new comparative apparatus built for clarity in study and teaching — not as a traditional critical apparatus of manuscript sigla alone.
Interior structure runs through all 27 New Testament books (pages 1–705 in the content layout), followed by indexes, abbreviations, preface and introduction material, and Appendices A–D. The hardbound print run is specified at 752 pages.
Base text. Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026 edition. The main text differs from the 2018 R-P text in six places (Matt. 26:29; Rom. 13:9; Phil. 3:5; Phlm. 1:1; Rev. 11:16; Rev. 13:14) and reflects thirteen changes to alternate readings versus 2018 (documented in Appendix A).
Paragraph formatting. Follows the Robinson–Pierpont 2005/2018 pattern. Paragraph divisions were reviewed and restored to match the original intent of the 2005 R-P editors (including corrections where some divisions had collapsed to chapter breaks only, e.g. Mark 9).
Editorial outlook. The edition presents the Byzantine Textform as the tradition that most closely reflects the New Testament autograph text, citing its geographic ubiquity and coherence across centuries of decentralized transmission, and its survival as a distinct, coherent tradition under the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) — in contrast to Westcott–Hort’s abandoned “Lucianic/Syrian recension” theory.
A new “edition” apparatus was created independently by the Guardian Press Editorial Committee from the editors’ own digital collations. The main text is compared comprehensively against eleven landmark Greek New Testament editions, with an emphasis on clarity over the denser conventions of traditional critical apparatuses.
Eleven comparison editions
Manuscript apparatus. A separate apparatus lists early manuscript evidence (all extant papyri and uncials, plus select minuscules dated 10th century or earlier) for 50 chosen significant variant units, showing where the Byzantine reading is also well supported among early witnesses. The full list of manuscripts and dates appears in Appendix D; a variant-unit index is included in the front matter.
The fifty units include well-known passages such as Matt. 6:13; Mark 16:9–20; John 7:53–8:11; Acts 8:37; Rom. 16:24; 1 John 5:7–8; and Rev. 22:14 (full index in the printed edition).
For a plain account of how this apparatus was built — reliable comparison texts, programmatic generation, and multi-year verification — see How the apparatus was built.
Copyright notice. © 2025 Guardian Press, Inc. and J. Jeffrey Dodson. Public-domain dedication: rights waived worldwide effective on the edition’s official public release date. Subsequent reproductions should retain the editors’ names, title, and disclaimer.
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The waitlist on this site is for Stephen Hackett’s independent Biblical Studies and Reviews hardbound printing of the public-domain Guardian Press text — not a second Guardian Press product line, and not a menu of options within one publisher’s waitlist.
This page is compiled by Stephen Hackett, who serves on the Guardian Press editorial committee, using each publisher's own published specifications. He is solely responsible for its content — not Guardian Press — and it is not sponsored, endorsed, or supported by Clearview Press. Information is provided to the best of his knowledge and is subject to change.