I just happily added The Center for New Testament Textual Studies NT Critical Apparatus to my Logos library.
From the resource’s introduction:
Welcome to the CNTTS textual database. The database is presented in the form of a textual apparatus that includes as much of the textual data as possible. The base text is that of the 3rd edition UBSGNT. The sources for the manuscript readings are given below, but in brief come primarily from our own collations with some information also derived from the works noted below. Part of the ongoing work is to verify the information derived from others by means of our own collations.
Work began on this project in 2000, with some foundations having been put in place even before that. The first section of the module to be completed was the Gospels in 2004, and slowly other sections of the New Testament (NT) were added at the rate at which the collation and compilation process allowed. In spite of about a one-year delay caused by Hurricane Katrina, the entire NT was finished and made available in 2010, with updates having been integrated since then on a regular basis. In 2012, a major update was made that included a change in the numbering scheme for the variants to make the module more user friendly (an explanation of that scheme is given later in this introduction information). In 2013, a total review of the variation units was started, with those updates still ongoing, but with many included in this edition of the apparatus. Plans are to finish the update on the variation units for the entire NT in 2015. Future stages will include the on-going work of reviewing and correcting or clarifying the data as well as the addition of more witnesses each year as part of the planned annual updates. The advantage of the electronic database is that additions such as these can be done on a continual basis, with the next few years already full of planned expansions and revisions. So this is a growing work that will improve in both quality and comprehensiveness as more data is added. …
Since the database is approaching 20,000 pages in length, editing is an on-going endeavor that benefits from the eyes of others who may spot issues that we missed.
Andy, I’d be interested to hear you talk a little about how you expect to use this resource. What does it add to your exegetical (or even just textual critical) toolbelt that the NA28 or UBS4 aren’t already providing? I guess, looking at it, I’m afraid I’d be awash in information that I wouldn’t have time to use. Part of the value of the standard critical editions, I’ve thought, is that accredited textual critics have waded through the vast information available and given me in the apparatus something of a precis. Not challenging your use of Logos funds, just genuinely curious.
I think I’ll use it in combination with other text crit tools. It’s pretty handy to have all that info in one place. I value the work of experts who evaluate the evidence, but it’s also nice to go one step back to see the data.